Go installation.txt

### Update your system
>sudo apt-get update

###Install wget package
>sudo apt-get install wget

### Install latest version of Go
>wget https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.9.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz

### Extract the archive
>tar -zxvf  go1.9.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/

###Set up environment variables
>export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin

>mkdir $HOME/work

>export GOPATH=$HOME/work

###Verify Go installation
>go version

###Check go environment variables
>go env

###Proceed to go directory
>cd go

###Spew allows us to view 'structs' and 'slices' cleanly formatted in our console.

>go get github.com/davecgh/go-spew/spew

###Gorilla/mux is a popular package for writing web handlers.

>go get github.com/gorilla/mux

###Gotdotenv lets us read from a .env file that we keep in the root of our directory so we don't have to hardcore things like our http ports. we'll need this too.

>go get github.com/joho/godotenv

####Next step
Let’s also create a .env file in the root of our directory defining the port that will serve http requests. Just add one line to this file:

ADDR=8080

Create a main.go file. Everything from now on will be written to this file and will be less than 200 lines of code.