In this sit down, I have:
- Covered 40 pages of the book (p. 1 ~ p. 39)
- Written my first smart contract (Faucet.sol).
- Compiled my first smart contract using Remix IDE.
- Register my first smart contract on the Ethereum Ropsten Testnet.
- Deployed my first smart contract on Ethereum Ropsten Testnet.
- Interacted with my deployed contract. -- Fund the faucet w 1 ETH. -- Withdraw 0.1 ETH from the faucet. -- Check the transaction history and internal txs of the faucet.
Thoughts
- Pretty easy for a beginner like me to follow.
- You would need the following as the book assumes you already have: -- Visual Studio Code - for writing the smart contract (.sol file) -- Github - for referring to the sample tutorial files
- Once you have the above, it's pretty much monkey-see-monkey-do level of difficulty following the book.
Learnings & Takeaways
I finally have a clearer picture how a smart contract is created and deployed.
- First, you need to write the contract.
- Then, you need to compile the contract into EVM bytecode... which is not in comprehensible English.
- Lastly, you need to deploy the contract onto the blockchain.
Biggest Takeaway? I learn how to deploy contracts on a testnet so it does not cost real money.