Plutus Pioneer Program

Lectures

• Lecture #1

  • Welcome
  • The (E)UTxO-model
  • Running an example auction contract on a local Playground
  • Homework

Code Examples

• Lecture #1: English Auction

Exercises

• Week #1

  • Build the English Auction contract with cabal build (you may need to run cabal update first).
  • Clone the The Plutus repository, check out the correct commit as specified in cabal.project.
  • Set-up IOHK binary caches How to set up the IOHK binary caches. "If you do not do this, you will end up building GHC, which takes several hours. If you find yourself building GHC, STOP and fix the cache."
  • Enter a nix-shell.
  • Go to the plutus-playground-client folder.
  • Start the Playground server with plutus-playground-server.
  • Start the Playground client (in another nix-shell) with npm run start.
  • Copy-paste the auction contract into the Playground editor - don't forget to remove the module header!
  • Compile.
  • Simulate various auction scenarios.

Additional Resources

• The Plutus repository
• Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
• Haskell & Cryptocurrencies course Mongolia