Technical requirements

Install Go Version 1.10 at https://golang.org/doc/install, depending on your operating system. 

The code files for this chapter can be found at the following GitHub URL: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learn-Data-Structures-and-Algorithms-with-Golang/tree/master/Chapter02.

In this chapter, database operations require the github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql package. In addition to this, MySQL (4.1+) needs to be installed from https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/.

Run the following command:

go get -u github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql