Reddit mentions of Introducing Ethereum and Solidity: Foundations of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Programming for Beginners

Taking the plunge to get rich on the other side of the crypto game.

Ordered Introducing Ethereum and Solidity: Foundations of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Programming for Beginners

I've got some CS background and an aptitude for programming. As a mechanical engineer (currently), I'm most excited to get involved in projects like Grid+

I've been reading Chris Dannen's book, but I used this for the Hello World application.

I haven't looked at these yet, but here's a list I've been collecting from reddit/quora:

• https://consensys.github.io/developers/articles/101-noob-intro/
  
• https://academy.b9lab.com/
  
• https://hackernoon.com/getting-started-as-an-ethereum-web-developer-9a2a4ab47baf
  
• https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/develop/
  
• https://media.consensys.net/introduction-to-zksnarks-with-examples-3283b554fc3b
  
• https://media.consensys.net/an-introduction-to-lll-for-ethereum-smart-contract-development-e26e38ea6c23
  
• https://media.consensys.net/ever-wonder-how-merkle-trees-work-c2f8b7100ed3
  
• https://medium.com/metamask/developing-ethereum-dapps-with-truffle-and-metamask-aa8ad7e363ba
  
• https://youtu.be/4qbJFpT1ecI

This book just arrived by mail to me: https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Ethereum-Solidity-Foundations-Cryptocurrency/dp/1484225341. Someone here who has read it?

I've read Introducing Ethereum and Solidity and it pretty good.

I'm working on a tutorial on how to create a DApp using React and Solidity that I will post on my blog. If you are interested, you can subscribe to get an email when I publish it.

Introducing Solidity and Ethereum is alright. For now I would just look into the documentation of Solidity, Truffle, geth, Web3 etc. Mastering Ethereum looks super promising, as it's written by Gavin Wood (co-founder of Ethereum, made Solidity) as well as Andreas Antonopoulos (wrote Mastering Bitcoin). It's supposed to come out later this year.

The problem is that these tools change so fast that books might be outdated by the time you read or get them. It doesn't help that this is such a new field. Even the documentation sometimes isn't up to date.