Yesterday ([Day 11](day11.md)), we created our first Go program that was self-contained and the parts we wanted to get user input for were created as variables within our code and given values, we now want to ask the user for their input to give the variable the value for the end message.
Yesterday we finished up with our code looking like this [day11_example4.go](Go/day11_example4.go) we have manually in code defined our `challenge, daystotal, dayscomplete` variables and constants.
Let's now add a new variable called `TwitterName` you can find this new code at [day12_example1.go](Go/day12_example1.go) and if we run this code this is our output.
We are on day 12 and we would need to change that `dayscomplete` every day and compile our code each day if this was hardcoded which doesn't sound so great.
Getting user input, we want to get the value of maybe a name and the number of days completed. For us to do this we can use another function from within the `fmt` package.
In our code [day12_example2.go](Go/day12_example2.go) you can see that we are asking the user to input two variables, `TwitterName` and `DaysCompleted`
Ok, that's great we got some user input and we printed a message but what about getting our program to tell us how many days we have left in our challenge.
For us to do that we have created a variable called `remainingDays` and we have hard valued this in our code as `90` we then need to change the value of this value to print out the remaining days when we get our user input of `DaysCompleted` we can do this with this simple variable change.
Let's simplify our code now and show with and without the `&` in front of one of our print commands, this gives us the memory address of the pointer. I have added this code example here. [day12_example4.go](Go/day12_example4.go)
