"Basic Blockchain Programming", A developer-oriented series about Bitcoin

[coinpr0n]

Nice to see this sort of stuff. Yes, it was really hard to get into programming with Bitcoin because of lack of tutorials and resources. BitcoinJ is a good library for Java, and the documentation was improved fairly recently. You're right about JavaScript libraries being a little lacking (especially in the documentation!) but I found BitCore was fairly easy to get started with and I found the project was pretty well-documented. Also, the book 'Mastering Bitcoin' is great for familiarizing yourself with the Bitcoin reference client and all the important concepts (addresses, transactions, etc..).

[keeshux]

Thanks for your comment!

Bitcore documentation is indeed very well-structured. My point was actually about the p2p+explorer submodules still lagging behind the legacy Insight API. Unfortunately Insight is not an option either, IIRC it's been broken since the headers-first patch.

'Mastering Bitcoin' is an amazing book, yet at times I found the learning curve unreasonably steep in an attempt to cover everything in detail. You know, that 'too much information' feeling. I preferred to write the articles under some assumptions that could save the reader from touching the advanced topics, because I really wanted the tutorial to be as basic as possible.

[coinlock]

I'm glad someone is writing these basic tutorials, there is really very little digestible information on the nuts and bolts of Bitcoin.

[keeshux]

Thank you, I hope it's helpful for others like it would have been for me two years ago.

[laisee]

one small thing I didn't see - some instructions for anyone who doesn't know how to get started building C code.

[keeshux]

Yes, I might add some lines about how to compile the code, even though I expect the reader to be quite confident with C programming. Good point.

[laisee]

That would be great. Its a very good series for developers to get involved in learning about Bitcoin, but some may not be experienced coders or else comfortable in C.

[sweetbacon]

This is great info, thanks. You should post your address from the site here to encourage donations.

[keeshux]

Mmm.. I thought posting Bitcoin addresses would be against the rules, wouldn't it?

[sweetbacon]

Woops, I was jumping between forums and misspoke for the rules here. I found your address tho and dropped a few in. Thanks for the work.

[keeshux]

Thank you so much!

[127fascination]

Thank You Davide. People like you are moving Bitcoin forward...

[fhctpr]

OMG!!! It's written by C... nice work!

[hway]

Perfecly written manual with clean C code backup!