In order to proceed with all the recipes in this chapter, configure your environment according to these steps:
- Download and install Go 1.12.6 or greater on youroperatingsystem athttps://golang.org/doc/install.
 - Open a Terminal or console application and create and navigate to a project directory such as ~/projects/go-programming-cookbook. All of our code will be run and modified from this directory.
 - Clone the latest code into ~/projects/go-programming-cookbook-original and work from that directory rather than typing the examples manually:
 
          $ git clone git@github.com:PacktPublishing/Go-Programming-Cookbook-Second-Edition.git go-programming-cookbook-original