This tutorial is now deprecated. Please visit /hello-world-gomod/ for the updated version. This is the second tutorial in our Golang tutorial series. Please read Golang tutorial part 1: Introduction and installation to know about what is golang and how to install golang. There is no better way to learn a programming language than getting our hands dirty with code. Lets go ahead and write our first go program. I would personally recommend using Visual Studio Code with the go extension as the IDE.