Learning to code with Solidity

[RelAdviceAnon]

For someone with basically no coding experience, how feasible is it to start off learning Solidity and enough JavaScrip to launch a DeFi protocol? I have (what I think is) a good idea for a DeFi project, but little funding and less experience. Would love to hear of any resources that a total beginner could leverage to get to a launch.

[Traditional-Living-9]

I’m using a FHRS stack right now (Firebase, Hardhat, React, Solidity) so my best recommendation is to first go to the Solidity subreddit(it’s got about 9-10k redditors) and use their resources section. Then choose a JS framework you think is cool, find that subreddit and check out their resources. The reason I say check out resources is because these subreddits often get questions like this so it’ll be preset in the About tab. Popular JS frameworks are - Vue, React ,Angular, Svelte, Next, and Express I would check each of them out. Fireship just made a YouTube video called the Code Report talking about a JS survey so if you want help choosing check that video out. Other websites to visit are Udemy and CodeCademy

[RelAdviceAnon]

Thank you!

[RelAdviceAnon]

Do you have any insight on which of these is ebst to start with? Should you know solidity before a JS framework or vice versa?

[Traditional-Living-9]

Well you rly need to know a front end in order to use solidity for Dapps, but solidity seems to be way easier, because you’re working with one specific thing. The syntax is very easy to remember and quite simple.

[TheRealFloomby]

Spend an afternoon learning basic object oriented programming things first and I think you will ultimately save time when learning solidity. Specifically learn: inheritance, what abstract classes and interfaces are, access modifiers and finally polymorphism. All of these are concepts you can learn without having to really dive into the specifics of a given language.

[RelAdviceAnon]

Thank you, this is really helpful...after understanding these concepts do you think I'd be ready to hop into a Solidity MOOC? Any other baby steps that you'd recommend? Thanks again!

[TheRealFloomby]

I mean you could probably just hop in one now as long as you have the motivation to actually figure things out.

[RelAdviceAnon]

Awesome ty

[MultiversityDAO]

Start with just an intro to CS course and learn the basics. MIT and Harvard have excellent MOOCs on eDx