Build a Pokedex in Go
Build a command-line Pokedex with a REPL, API calls, JSON parsing, and caching in Go. Also available in:
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What you'll learn in this Go course
A REPL, or Read-Eval-Print Loop, is a simple interactive programming environment that takes user input, evaluates it, and returns the result to the user. In this guided project, you'll build a Pokedex-like REPL in Go that uses the PokeAPI to fetch data about Pokemon. It's a great way to put your Go knowledge to the test and learn valuable skills like HTTP networking and data serialization.
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Enjoyed the project - know nothing about pokemon but using api and go was great. Getting the cli to work was frustrating but a great learning experience.
Francis Quimby
United States
Really fun way to build a project in Go and it's about Pokemon!
Jaesea MMO Legend
United States
Simple but loved it to get started with writing some basic Go clients and organsing code
Coder Python
United Kingdom
fun
Rohit Rajvanshi
India
A fun project about a rest client, json, and repl.
Akshell
France
very challenging, will need to review again, but very informational.
mansur eh
Morocco
This course was fun, and learning about how to create a cli from the bottom up is great!
Jeremy Cribb
United States
There were some challenges, but VERY useful insights to skills that will be needed for upcoming projects I have in mind.
Crackajack Mac
United States
Not a lot of hand-holding, you have to go search yourself, but as tasks moved forward I found myself referencing docs way less often. The resulting project stops at a pretty basic pokedex ( of course) but there are great suggestions to ramp up the difficulty and grow it.
Chris Argyrop
Greece
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