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Blockchain Quick Start Guide

Blockchain Quick Start Guide

This is the code repository for Blockchain Quick Start Guide, published by Packt.

A beginner's guide to developing enterprise-grade decentralized applications

What is this book about?

First Paragraph from the Long Description

This book covers the following exciting features:

  • Understand the working of Blockchain hashing
  • Write and test a smart contract using Solidity
  • Develop and test a decentralized application
  • Build and test your application using Hyperledger Fabric
  • Implement business network using Hyperledger Composer
  • Test and interact with business network applications

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Instructions and Navigations

All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02.

The code will look like the following:

contract SimpleStorage {
    uint storedData; // State variable
    //…
}

Following is what you need for this book: The book is for developers, analysts, or anyone looking to learn about Blockchain in a quick and easy manner.

With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-7).

Software and Hardware List

Chapter Software required OS required
3 Remix Windows and Ubuntu
4 Visual studio code Windows and Ubuntu
4 Truffle Windows and Ubuntu
4 Ganache Windows and Ubuntu
6 Hyperledger Playground Windows and Ubuntu

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Get to Know the Authors

Xun (Brian) Wu is an author, founder, and advisor. He has over 17 years of extensive hands-on experience in the design and development of blockchain, big data, cloud, UI, and system infrastructure. He has worked for top investment banks including JP. Morgan, Citigroup, and the Bank of America. He is the co-author of Seven NoSQL Databases in a Week, Hyperledger Cookbook, and Blockchain By Example, published by Packt. He has been a technical reviewer for more than 50 computer technical books for Packt Publishing. He serves as a board advisor for several blockchain start-ups. He owns several patents on blockchain. Brian holds a master's degree in computer science from NJIT. He lives in New Jersey with his two beautiful daughters, Bridget and Charlotte.

Weimin Sun has 20 years of experience of working in the financial industry. He has worked for top-tier investment and commercial banks such as J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, Citibank, and Morgan Stanley. He has managed large teams developing IT applications. He has held corporate titles such as Executive Director and Senior VP. He has in-depth knowledge of blockchain technology, data architecture, data modeling, data science, and big data platforms. He is an expert in designing data-driven solutions. He has a Ph.D, an M.B.A, and an M.Sc. He has published several papers on statistics in renowned academic journals. Weimin lives in New Jersey, USA, with his beautiful wife and his talented son.

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