Mastering Smart Contracts

A no-nonsense guide to writing smart contracts for Ethereum blockchain

This book will teach you how to write well tested and production ready Smart Contracts for Ethereum blockchain in just a week.

It uses "Learning by building" approach to give you practical hands-on experience with Smart Contract and Solidity language.

The book is WIP. Buy it now for $9.99 and get free updates.

Sandeep Panda

This book will teach you how to write well tested and production ready Smart Contracts for Ethereum blockchain in just a week.

It uses "Learning by building" approach to give you practical hands-on experience with Smart Contract and Solidity language.

The book is WIP. Buy it now for $9.99 and get free updates.

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I am the Co-Founder of Hashnode, a community of software developers. Lately, we have been experimenting with Solidity and Smart Contracts extensively. I am writing this book to introduce developers to the world of Decentralized apps (Dapps) and Ethereum Blockchain.

"Mastering Smart Contracts" book is divided into five chapters. In each chapter you will write, test and deploy one Smart Contract. This book is based on "Learning by building" approach which means you will learn Smart Contracts and Solidity language through practical examples and projects.

Buy this book if your answer is yes to all of the following:

You have basic knowledge of blockchains and understand how they work (Don't have to be an expert).
You believe in gaining hands-on experience with any new technology.
You aren't looking for a book that just reiterates the documentation in different words.

Basic knowledge of JavaScript and Node will be helpful but is not a prerequisite.

The accompanying code for each chapter is available on GitHub. You can always ask your questions on Hashnode. I will be happy to answer them.

P.S. This book is 60% complete at the moment and the next chapter is coming out on 16th July 2018.

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Sandeep Panda

I am an entrepreneur and programmer. I am building Hashnode, a network of software developers to connect with each other on a global scale.

I have a passion for learning new things and teaching seemingly complex topics in a simple manner. I have authored AngularJS: Novice to Ninja and co-authored Jump Start HTML5. I have also contributed many technical tutorials to SitePoint in the past.

Currently, I keep interest in:

ReactJS and other front-end technologies
Node.js
Blockchain & Smart Contracts

Table of Contents

Introduction

What’s a Blockchain
Ethereum Blockchain
Smart Contracts
Solidity
Wallets, Ethers & Wei

Chapter 1: Writing a basic Arithmetic Contract

Tools we’ll use
Project Structure
Code
Compile
Unit Testing
Final Deployment
Deployment using online Solidity Compiler
Next Steps

Chapter 2: Building a Voting Smart Contract

Concepts to be covered
Code
Understanding the concepts
Visibility of Members
Info
Function Modifiers, View and Pure Functions
Events
Final Code
Conclusion

Chapter 3: Writing an ICO Contract (a.k.a launch your own cryptocurrency)

What are tokens?
Info
Info
Info
What is an ICO?
What’s an ERC20 token?
Info
Writing a basic ICO contract
Writing a real-world ICO contract
Info
Info

Chapter 4: Building a Simple Auction Contract

Chapter 5: Writing a Gift Card Smart Contract

Security Considerations

Best Practices, Dos and Don’ts

Conclusion and what’s next?

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