README.md

GNOLANG 101

Contents

• Introduction
• Resources
• Course
• Community
• Contribute

Introduction

Welcome to GNOLANG 101!

This course is designed for aspiring programmers who are looking to become a smart contract developer on Gnoland, a scalable layer 1 with built-in concurrency.

Existing smart contract platforms are struggling with mass adoption due to technical issues such as 1) low throughput, 2) non-interoperability, or 3) flawed tokenomics.

Gnoland addresses these problems with the highly performant Tendermint Consensus algorithm and Gnolang, a fork of Golang. This course focuses on Gnolang, the language that is used in the core modules of Gnoland and its dapps. Highlights of Gnolang as described in its official docs are as follows:

• Like interpreted Go, but more ambitious.
• Completely deterministic, for complete accountability.
• Transactional persistence across data realms.
• Designed for concurrent blockchain smart contracts systems.

Gnolang is in its early stage, and therefore we're in need of passionate developers that can help us build the tools, applications, and modules to create a vibrant ecosystem centered around quality software.

This course consists of resources, tutorials, and guides that will help you get started on your journey as a Gnolang developer. By the end of the course, you will understand how to write and publish contracts on the Gnoland blockchain in Gnolang. If you ever run into any issues, reach out for help on the Discord server where we have active developers willing to support newcomers!

*This course assumes that you have a moderate degree of programming skills.

Resources

A full list of resources that you will need to access throughout the course.

Reading

• Readme
• Philosophy
• Plan
• Roadmap

Repositories

• gno
• awesome-gno
• www.gno.land
• tendermint
• tendermint2
• bounties
• gno-basics
• adena-extension
• decentralists DAO

Tutorials

• Gnoland Developer Portal
• The Official Golang Tutorial
• The Gnoland Quickstart Guide
• Gno Basics

Tools

• Adena
• Gnotools
• Gnoscan

Course

Read the instructions and follow the checklist in order.

Instructions

• read: Items to be read, be they journals, write-ups, or even lines of code.
• do: Items that require you to perform specific tasks. These items usually include writing and running your own code.
• Clone this repo and check off items to track your progress!

Checklist

1. • read the README file
2. • read the Philosophy
3. • read the Plan
4. • read the Roadmap
5. • do Join the Discord Server
6. • do the Official Golang Tutorial (skip if you know Golang)
7. • do Build gnokey and create an account
8. • do Acquire testnet tokens from the faucet
9. • do Create a board, a post, and a comment on test2.gno.land
10. • do Set up a local node
11. • do Publish sample packages
12. • do gno-basics 001-hello
13. • do gno-basics 002-args
14. • do gno-basics 003-data
15. • do gno-basics 004-render
16. • read package avl
17. • read package dom
18. • do gno-basics 005-import
19. • read package grc20
20. • do gno-basics 006-grc20
21. • read package vault
22. • do gno-basics 007-vault
23. • do explore more packages
24. • do explore more realms
25. • do explore bounty programs
26. • do Write & publish your own packages & realms

Community

• Discord
• Telegram
• Twitter
• Gnoland Boards

Contribute

Gnolang is a new language with new updates being shipped almost every day. We'll try to keep this course as up-to-date as possible, but we'd appreciate your help to cover as much information as possible.

Please take a look at the contribution guidelines and become a TA by helping us develop this course!