1 Project - redditnews for Baby Gophers

1.1 Our Project

I am keen to be abreast with what’s happening in the Golang world. To that end, we will write a command-line program (redditnews.go) that fetches and displays the latest headlines from the golang page on Reddit.

The program will:

• make an HTTP request to the Reddit API.
• decode the JSON response into a Go data structure, and
• display each link’s author, score, URL and title.

We will then be building a bare-bones News Reader package (redditnews) that gives us the latest news and headlines from the Golang Sub-Reddit, using Reddit’s API.

Once the project is ready, we will use GMail to send an email which will contain the information fetched by the package redditnews.

1.2 What will you learn?

You will learn and understand the mechanics of creating a package in Go.