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+# Exercise 1: 
+
+## Due Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 11:59 PM
+## Objectives: To get familiar with writing a very basic application in Go and gain practice with our git workflow for distributiing course materials and submitting projects.
+
+## Specifications/Requirements
+1. You are given 1 file: __exercise1.go__. When your application runs, it should print to the terminal the following information (on separate lines):  
+*  Your full name
+*  Your favorite programming language
+*  Why you took this course
+*  What you hope to do after you graduate 
+
+
+To deliver your submission you will need to commit your changes locally and push to your repo on the university gitlab server.  
+__NOTE__: You should not commit any executables or binaries as a result of compiling and building your application. 
+
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+package main
+
+import (
+    "fmt"
+)
+
+// TODO: complete the exercise here
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