Project 1 : A Simple First Project

Summary: lets practice with files and basic go

Due: Wednesday Sept 30^th at 11:59pm

(I'll give project 2 to the grad students before this one is due.

Details:

Create a new project. Make sure it has your name in it somewhere in the project name.

(granted I am pushing the limits to try and get a simple program which practices lots of what we learned, some of this may seem forced)

Write go go program that has functions

The main function will

1. Start a command line shell like loop - offer the user a menu of choices and read the user's typed reply

1. switch on the reply and choose one of the options. Each one should invoke a function (those are described below).
2. one of the options should be to quit the program - when the user chooses that one do so
3. Keep asking what the user wants to do and then doing it until the user chooses to end the program.

The one function will

1. Open a file of the user's choosing and read it in.

1. ask the user for a number X, print every Xth line of the file to the screen

The next function will

• prompt the user to type in a string
• report (in a manner that the user can easily tell which is which) how many byte and how many characters the users input is
• When I test your program, I will be pasting in some text that is English, some that contains emojis and some that contains non-English characters.

The next function will

• create a struct with at least three values of different types as fields.
• print that struct
• call another function passing the struct as a parameter
• in this new function, make a change to the struct and print it
• return from the new function
• print the struct again in the original function
• make sure that the prints are expressive enough for a user to understand

• create a list of two structs of the sort from the previous function above
• print that list
• call another function passing the list of structs as a parameter
• in this new function, make a change to the second struct in the list and print the list
• return from the new function
• print the list again in the original function
• make sure that the prints are expressive enough for a user to understand (and the user can understand the difference between this and previous function)
  

Submitting the project.

submit the project by putting it on github and sending me a collaboration invite.