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Primitive Types

Beginner · Fundamentals

Go’s built-in types: booleans, numeric types (int, int8…64, uint…, float32/64, complex), byte (alias for uint8), rune (alias for int32), and string. Conversions between numeric types must be explicit.

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Exercises

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Toggle a boolean before the second check.

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Update the code to reflect the store closing before the second check.

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Declare the string before formatting it.

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Make sure 'who' is declared and assigned a value before using it.

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Declare the variables passed to Printf.

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fmt.Printf() can take multiple variables as parameters. Try declaring those variables.

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Store a character in a byte value.

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byte can hold values from 0 to 255. Could it store a character?

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Use Go’s real numeric type names.

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These names seem misleading, no? But they are close to being correct.
Check this documentation to understand the variety of
numeric data types: https://go.dev/ref/spec#Numeric_types

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