orlandovald / ready-set-golang

Ready, Set, Golang! talk demo

ready-set-golang

Just a simple demo application to demonstrate some of the Go programming language features. It uses the Marvel API to retrieve a random character. Only Go's standard libraries are used, no external dependencies.

This is part of my Ready, Set, Golang! talk. You can find the slides here

How to run

1. Install the Go tools in your machine. How to here
2. Get API keys from developers.marvel.com Slides
3. Set your public and private API keys as environment variables with the following names, e.g.

export MARVEL_PUBLIC_KEY=your_public_key
export MARVEL_PRIVATE_KEY=your_private_key

3. Build and run go run main.go