learn-plutus

Resources and my steps for becoming a Plutus blockchain developer

Learn Haskell

• IOHK Haskell 2022 Full Course Repo
• Haskell and Crypto Mongolia 2020
• Learn you a Haskell for Great Good Book (Online)
• Haskell Cheat Sheets:
  • alhassy/HaskellCheatSheet
  • Haskell Cheat Sheet by Rudy Matella (PDF)
  • serodriguez68/haskell-cheat-sheet
• Exercism Haskell Track
  • My Solutions
• code.world/haskell
• Hoogle
• Prelude Hackage Page

Environment Setup:

• Setup Haskell with GHCUp
• My Haskell VSCode Setip in 2021 - Ivan Hrekov

Haskell Tricks

• Google "hoogle <function name>" to search Hoogle effectively to see where a function can be found and learn more about it.

• In GHCI:

  • Add or remove modules from ghci environment:

  :module +<name of the module> // Add
  :module -<name of the module> // Remove

Learn Plutus

• Plutus Docs
• Plutus Playground
• PlutusTx Haddock

Plutus Pioneers Program

• Program repo
• Plutus Apps repo

Environment Setup

• Setup Nix on MacOs
• Set up the IOHK binary caches (#1)

Start the Playground

1. Checkout plutus-apps repository at required commit
2. Enter nix-shell with GC_DONT_GC=1 nix-shell to disable garbage collection
3. Maybe nix-build -A plutus-playground.client
4. Maybe nix-build -A plutus-playground.server
5. Maybe nix-build -A plutus-playground.start-backend
6. Maybe cabal build plutus-pab as described here
7. Navigate to ./plutus-playground-client
8. Run plutus-playground-server
9. Launch 2nd nix-shell in plutus-apps repository and navigate to ./plutus-playground-client
10. Run npm start.

• Solve /bin/plutus-playground-server: No such file or directory
• MacOS Plutus Playground Build - Instructions (datad but useful)

Calculate posix time from slot

1. Enter nix-shell from plutus-apps.
2. Navigate to plutus-pioneer-program repo and go into week directory.
3. Enter cabal repl
4. import Data.Default
5. import Ledger.TimeSlot
6. slotToEndPOSIXTime def [slot count] 10 slots = 1596059101999

Useful nix-shell commands

Haddock Docs:

$ build-and-serve-docs

Marlowe

• Marlowe Docs
• Marlowe Playground

Cardano

• Essential Cardano List
• Essential Cardano Content
• Weekly Cardano Development Updates
• Cardano Developer Portal

Cardano Forums Finds

• Understanding Cardano Extended-UTXO
• Decentralization is at the heart of Cardano