Below are the slides for my talk on Smart Contract Programming in 2023 at Boston Code Camp 35 in Burlington, Mass, 11/18/2023, https://www.bostoncodecamp.com/CC35/info.

Thanks to the organizers and fellow presenters who work hard and put in a lot of volunteer effort creating a day of learning for the local programmer community. And thanks to the attendees, who showed up eager to learn and asked some really insightful questions.

Session Description

Are you curious about blockchain, web 3, cryptocurrencies or NFTs? Then you may be interested in the development of “smart contracts”, the concept that powers much of the innovation taking place in blockchain.

Solidity is the most common programming language on the Ethereum blockchain. It’s so popular that it’s supported on many other blockchains. Over the past few years there have been many advancements in tooling and libraries to support smart contract development in Solidity.

In this session, we’ll walk through the code of a simple “Hello World” contract in Solidity. Then I’ll demonstrate how you can test it, deploy it to a TestNet blockchain, and finally, how you can execute your contact from a simple application.

You should come away from this talk with a basic overview of what Solidity is and how you can use the latest tooling to develop your own smart contracts.

Slides