Ethereum For Dummies

Chapter 7

Building Your First Ethereum Apps

IN THIS CHAPTER

Exploring your development environment

Coding in Solidity

Writing smart contracts

Using blockchain data

The best way to learn how to write apps for the Ethereum blockchain is to start writing them. You can read about all the components and language syntax, but until you write some code, it won’t sink in. You’ve already gone through the steps to set up your development environment, so why not start using it?

Don’t worry about writing code before you know what you’re doing — you start with small, simple Solidity apps. And you learn about syntax and process as you need it. The typos you enter and other issues you encounter will help you learn faster.

The code you’ll write in this chapter is really simple. That’s okay. You’re going to learn how to write code in Solidity, and you’re going to start from the very beginning. Whether you’re new to programming or you already know several other programming languages, the exercises in this chapter will ensure that you have a working development environment and know how to write basic ...