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Re:First chapter of Kernighan and Donovan's new Go book [pdf] by ifross on Monday October 19, 2015 @05:34PM (#10415950)
In the preface it does state:

  To run the examples, you will need at least version 1.5 of Go.

  $ go version
  go version go1.5 linux/amd64

  Follow the instructions at https://golang.org/doc/install if the go tool on your computer is older or missing.
Re:First chapter of Kernighan and Donovan's new Go book [pdf] by morsegeek on Monday October 19, 2015 @07:23PM (#10416471)
The deterministic rand behavior is the same for all go versions: https://golang.org/pkg/math/rand/#pkg-overview