Chapter 1.3: Running A Program

Initial Steps

Before we do anything, let's keep organized! Make a directory specifically for this book, maybe glang_learning and move into it. Create a file titled main.glang and open it in an IDE or text editor.

For the record, .glang files can be any name. GLang has the ability to run any program with the .glang extension.

Writing The Code

Inside the main.glang file, we are going to write the following (you may not understand it, but that's ok!):

bark("Hello, World!");

Save this file and open the terminal in the same directory as the main.glang file (use the cd command, or right click > open terminal in that directory). To run this file, we type the following:

glang main.glang

That's it! You should see Hello, World! inside the terminal. Congrats on writing the first line of GLang 🎉🎉

Your Challenge 🤔

Modify the Hello, World! inside quotation marks ("") to display the message Learning to code is easy! inside the terminal.

Answer

bark("Learning to code is easy!");