This is the archived website of SI 413 from the Fall 2012 semester. Feel free to browse around; you may also find more recent offerings at my teaching page.
Go is a programming language that was developed by Google and realeased just in 2009. The basic goals of Go were to havethe speed of C combined with the ease of programming of Python. That is, to be able to compile really, really fast code, but not have to worry about seg faults and all the other nasties that normally come with it. Go also has built-in support for concurrency with what are called goroutines.
Put your program in a file called proj.go. I will
run it using the universal "go" command, by typing
go run proj.go
from within the CS linux environment.
For this language, you need to implement modifications A, B, C, D, F, G, H, and I. See the Phase 1 page for details on what this means.
See the Phase 2 Page for the list of suggested
problems. Of the ones listed, I recommend the following as being most
well-suited for go: