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Solutions - Control flow exercises

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Let's look at possible solutions for each of the exercises.

Write a FizzBuzz program

A solution for the exercise to use the switch statement could be something like this:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strconv"
)

func fizzbuzz(num int) string {
    switch {
    case num%15 == 0:
        return "FizzBuzz"
    case num%3 == 0:
        return "Fizz"
    case num%5 == 0:
        return "Buzz"
    }
    return strconv.Itoa(num)
}

func main() {
    for num := 1; num <= 100; num++ {
        fmt.Println(fizzbuzz(num))
    }
}

For the FizzBuzz case, you multiply 3 by 5 because the results are divisible by 3 and 5. You can also include an AND condition to check whether a number is divisible by 3 and 5.

Find the primes

A solution to the exercise to find the prime numbers less than 20 could be something like this:

package main

import "fmt"

func findprimes(number int) bool {	
	for i := 2; i < number; i++ {
        if number % i == 0 {
			return false
        }
    }

	if number > 1 {
		return true
	} else {
	    return false
	}	
}

func main() {
    fmt.Println("Prime numbers less than 20:")
	
    for number := 1; number <= 20; number++ {
        if findprimes(number) {
            fmt.Printf("%v ", number)
        }
    }
}

In the main function, we loop from 1 to 20, and call the findprimes function to check the current number. In the findprimes function, we start the for loop at 2, and repeat until the counter is more than the number value. If the number is evenly divisible by the counter, the number isn't prime. If we complete the loop without exiting, the number is either 1, or it's prime.

Here's the output:

Prime numbers less than 20:
2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 

Ask a number, panic if negative

The solution to the exercise to try a panic call could be something like this:

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    val := 0

    for {
        fmt.Print("Enter number: ")
        fmt.Scanf("%d", &val)

        switch {
        case val < 0:
            panic("You entered a negative number!")
        case val == 0:
            fmt.Println("0 is neither negative nor positive")
        default:
            fmt.Println("You entered:", val)
        }
    }
}

Remember, the idea is to practice an infinite loop and a switch statement.

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