Create and Deploy Your First Solidity Smart Contract

Description

20 years ago I graduated with a first class software engineering degree. Since then I've been interested in new and disruptive technologies, like cryptocurrencies, the blockchain and smart contracts.

In this course I'll teach you what Ethereum and smart contracts are with an explanation of gas costs, I'll then introduce the Solidity smart contracts programming language and the Remix online Integrated Development Environment.

After that I'll show you how to compile and test your first Solidity smart contract using the Remix environment, firstly using the JavaScript Virtual Machine, then the Ganache Ethereum Client. 

Finally I'll explain how to use MetaMask to deploy your Solidity contract on the live Rinkeby Ethereum Testnet Blockchain, before describing how to deploy a Solidity contract on the real main Ethereum blockchain. 

This is a step by step guide on how to create, compile, test and deploy a simple Solidity contract locally then onto a live blockchain. It's not a course on how to program in Solidity, but it's a great starting point.

If you're interested in developing Solidity smart contracts for the blockchain but are a complete beginner and don't know where to start, this is definitely the course for you.

It consists mainly of video, slides, screencasts and some fun quizzes.  It should only take you a few hours to complete, but it'll be a few hours very well spent.

Thanks for taking an interest in this Solidity smart contracts course and I look forward to you being my student.

Who is the target audience?

• Anyone interested in creating and deploying their very first smart contract using Solidity.