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It has been a week since my last blog post but I have a good excuse for the silence. I co-wrote a book. A short one I will admit, but still...
As you may recall my last post featured a click bait style headline:
Get Paid in Radix $XRD for Coding with Scrypto - Complete Step by Step Instructions
I am happy to say that a good number of people read my post and took advantage of the offer and actually posted example code thus qualifying themselves for a payout. I take that as a complement to the general aptitude of my readers.
However a lot of people got hung up on Step 10 which was admittedly a big one. There I asked you to look at a working Scrypto example and then learn enough Scrypto to edit that example and turn it into some different example that you could call your own. I made it sound easy but obviously that step is quite challenging unless you already know Rust syntax and the basics of DeFi pretty well.
You can be sure that we heard about Step 10 on my rapidly expanding Rust & Scrypto Forum on discord. Fortunately one of the Guild's core members took upon himself to outline a guide to Scrypto. He asked for my help and I agreed under the condition that we would try to get it done ASAP. He agreed and we were off. Between the two of us we probably spent about 60 hours on the project but, when we were done, we were pretty confident that people would like it. Fortunately the early reviews for First Steps in Defi: A Scrypto Tutorial have been quite good and the Tip Jar has also attracted some very nice donations as well.
Part of my speed with creating the new example code that we needed for the Tutorial came from using the Guild's which considerably speeds up the task of running smoke tests by turning that slow manual task into a fully automated one. I particularly liked the new "power user" mode which I highlighted in my last YouTube video (which I also managed to churn out last weekend.)
On the flip side my experience with GitBook was less wonderful. I will say that it allowed the pair of us to work together but frankly we ended up avoided working too much at the same time and especially avoided editing on the same page at the same time. Even so there were overwritten changes all the time that we had to pull out of the git logs and it was just too scary a process due to various failed syncs and other hiccups. We will probably try out some other approach to co-writing next time around unless GitBook really steps up their game.
So the Radix Works offer is still wide open and so if you got stuck on Step 10 last week ago or you just now got motivated to give Scrypto a try, we really have you covered now. Perform the steps in the last blog and this time, when you get to Step 10, spend some time with our Tutorial and you will easily pick up enough Scrypto to create your own example and earn some easy tokens. If you still need help then you can join our forum on discord and look over the additional resources posted there. Also check the event schedule for a live session with yours truly where we will run through the 12 steps and also try to answer your questions about Scrypto.
Besides the tokens, which I think will be worth a lot some day, the experience may be truly life altering. After all you may find that Radix and Scrypto fit you well and allow you to create DeFi Dapps far beyond what you imagined was possible with first generation DeFi programming languages. Good luck!
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