Building Games with Ethereum Smart Contracts: Intermediate Projects for Solidity Developers

© Kedar Iyer and Chris Dannen 2018

Kedar Iyer and Chris DannenBuilding Games with Ethereum Smart Contractshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3492-1_3

3. First Steps with Ethereum

Kedar Iyer¹  and Chris Dannen¹

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Brooklyn, New York, USA

 

This chapter is the first of our applied practice chapters. It walks through the two fundamental Ethereum interactions. In the first project, we will broadcast a transaction to three Ethereum networks. In the second project, we will deploy a simple Hello World contract.

Project 3-1: Creating Transactions

In this exercise, we will use the geth console to send ether. You may have used a wallet service to send ether in the past. We will be using JavaScript, the language of the geth console, and web3.js, Ethereum’s official ...