Hands-On Blockchain Development in 7 Days - ebook

Build an Ethereum gaming application from scratch in a span of seven days, by mastering smart contracts in Solidity

Key Features

• Create a simple, functional decentralized application, on the Ethereum network
• Learn fundamental blockchain programming concepts to become a blockchain developer
• Understand the development life cycle of a blockchain application

Book Description

Blockchain is a revolutionary technology that is currently been used in a variety of industrial applications, such as finance, healthcare, data analytics, and much more. This book will teach you the key blockchain principles and methodologies that are required to build decentralized applications in just 7 days.

This book will teach you to build an online gaming application using Ethereum. Each section will introduce fundamental blockchain programming concepts as they relate to creating an online game, followed by practical exercises that readers can implement as homework assignments. With this book, you will learn core blockchain application development skills, create smart contracts, and build user interfaces. You will not only learn how to interact with the Ethereum network, but also how to deploy your application to the Internet. This book supplies seven self-contained lessons taught in a practical, hands-on way.

By the end of the book, you will be amazed at how much you have learned about the blockchain application development on the Ethereum network, in just one week!

What you will learn

• Work with blockchain networks to create interactive applications
• Learn how to create and use variables in smart contracts
• Use automated tests to eliminate mistakes and errors in the code
• Interact with the Ethereum network from a user interface
• Build a user interface for smart contracts using React
• Send and receive funds in smart contracts using wallets
• Deploy blockchain applications on AWS

Who this book is for

This book is for software engineers and IT professionals, who are eager to learn blockchain application development skills and want to master how blockchain applications are developed. This book is perfect for those with limited programming experience.

Will Button works with web, mobile, and blockchain start-ups in advisory and technical roles. As an advisor, he helps organizations scale securely and sustainably. As a technical expert, he helps organizations build the processes, systems, and teams necessary to deliver world-class services and applications to their customers. Since 1995, Will has used his experience with multiple successful start-ups to create over 150 videos on DevOps, software engineering, and blockchain application development. He is a certified Ethereum developer, and holds the Linux Foundation Blockchain for Business certificate. He is the lead of the Application Architecture Working Group for the Government Blockchain Alliance. For more information, visit his blog.