Mastering Ethereum Challenge Part 2 - Deployed my first smart contract!

In this sit down, I have:

• Covered 40 pages of the book (p. 1 ~ p. 39)
• Written my first smart contract (Faucet.sol).
• Compiled my first smart contract using Remix IDE.
• Register my first smart contract on the Ethereum Ropsten Testnet.
• Deployed my first smart contract on Ethereum Ropsten Testnet.
• Interacted with my deployed contract.
  -- Fund the faucet w 1 ETH.
  -- Withdraw 0.1 ETH from the faucet.
  -- Check the transaction history and internal txs of the faucet.

Thoughts

• Pretty easy for a beginner like me to follow.
• You would need the following as the book assumes you already have:
  -- Visual Studio Code - for writing the smart contract (.sol file)
  -- Github - for referring to the sample tutorial files
• Once you have the above, it's pretty much monkey-see-monkey-do level of difficulty following the book.

Learnings & Takeaways

I finally have a clearer picture how a smart contract is created and deployed.

• First, you need to write the contract.
• Then, you need to compile the contract into EVM bytecode... which is not in comprehensible English.
• Lastly, you need to deploy the contract onto the blockchain.

Biggest Takeaway?
I learn how to deploy contracts on a testnet so it does not cost real money.