Introduction

Over the course of this curriculum, we'll learn the basics of Solidity and Ethereum from the ground up by creating an interactive web3 Tic-Tac-Toe game. We'll learn to write and test Solidity smart contracts using Foundry and Hardhat. We'll explore ERC20 tokens, NFTs, and other Ethereum abstractions. We'll create a React frontend using useDapp and Ethers and deploy it to IPFS, a distributed peer-to-peer filesystem. Finally, we'll deploy our smart contracts to Polygon, an EVM-compatible blockchain with fast, cheap transactions.

The content in this book was originally written as a supplement to a series of hands on workshops. In person, we typically cover one chapter per week, with two one hour sessions dedicated to writing code collaboratively using Live Share.

Special thanks to 8th Light for supporting these workshops.

Prerequisites

You should have some experience programming to get the most out of this content, but you don't have to be an expert. Here are a few suggested prerequisites.

• You've read chapters 1-6 of Mastering Ethereum to get a basic understanding of Ethereum.
• 101 level React: You've created a basic React application. You should be familiar with create-react-app, hooks, structuring an app, and basic testing.
• 102 level automated testing: You've written automated tests before. You should be comfortable writing unit tests and using xUnit style assertions.
• 102 level UNIX: You're not afraid of the terminal. You should be familiar with Make, bash, and working on the command line.
• 201 level polyglot programming: You've used both a dynamic language like JS/Python and a typed language like Java/Golang.