Hello, Space Explorer! Today, we’re diving into an essential topic using Go: managing data using structs and slices. To practice this concept, we will build a simple Student Management System. We will create a struct that stores students and their grades. This hands-on approach will guide us in understanding how structs and slices can be effectively utilized in real-world applications. Excited? Awesome, let's dive in!
To achieve our goal, we need to implement three primary methods (i.e. receiver functions) within our student management system:
- (sm *StudentManager) addStudent(name string, grade int): This function allows us to add a new student and their grade to our list. If the student is already on the list, their grade will be updated.
- (sm *StudentManager) getGrade(name string) (int, bool): This function retrieves the grade for a student given their name. If the student is not found, it returns- 0and- false.
- (sm *StudentManager) removeStudent(name string) bool: This function removes a student from the list by their name. It returns- trueif the student was successfully removed, and- falseif the student does not exist.
Does that sound straightforward? Fantastic, let's break it down step by step.
