eth-dev-reading-list

A list of links to articles, tutorials and papers that are helpful for people developing on the ethereum stack

Tutorials (beginner friendly)

1. Hello world - greeter contract
2. Truffle first dApp tutorial
3. Smart contracts for noobs
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Smart Contracts in Ethereum
5. Getting Up to Speed on Ethereum
6. The ultimate end-to-end tutorial to create and deploy a fully decentralized Dapp in ethereum
7. [Ethereum for Web Developers](https://medium.com/@mvmurthy/ethereum-for-web-developers-890be23d1d0c)
8. [Full Stack Hello World Voting Ethereum Dapp Tutorial](https://medium.com/@mvmurthy/full-stack-hello-world-voting-ethereum-dapp-tutorial-part-1-40d2d0d807c2)
9. Getting started with Ethereum & Solidity on Windows — part 1
10. Getting started with Ethereum, Solidity & Geth — part 2
11. Solidity workshop - detailed resource
12. Youtube channel - detailed course on solidity language
13. Web developer, welcome to Ethereum

Security

1. Solidity docs security considerations
2. ConsenSys best practices
3. Zeppelin smart contract security
4. Winners solutions of underhanded solidity contest
5. Problems with tx.origin
6. Golem short address token bug
7. DAO hack explained
8. Parity wallet hack explained
9. Vitalik thoughts about security and listing some known exploits
10. King of the ether secuirty checklist
11. King of the ether exploit
12. Guide how to audit solidity contracts
13. Attacks on ethereum contracts - 30min video and detailed paper

General

1. Ethereum wiki - white paper, yellow paper and just pure gold information about ethereum
2. Ethereum docs
3. [How does Ethereum work, anyway?](https://medium.com/@preethikasireddy/how-does-ethereum-work-anyway-22d1df506369)
4. When to use revert/require/assert
5. [Introduction to events and logs](https://media.consensys.net/technical-introduction-to-events-and-logs-in-ethereum-a074d65dd61e)
6. Payment channel with 50 lines of code
7. Reducing eth gas arrays -> bytes
8. Understanding oracles
9. Building an Oracle
10. Oraclize docs
11. Hash table attacks and how does mapping work
12. What it takes to create a successful ICO?
13. The Faults and Shortcomings of the EVM
14. Economics of Fees and Gas
15. Spificator a usability pattern for dapps
16. Diving into EVM - series of articles
17. Basic of solidity opcode and bytecode
18. Upgradable smart contract
19. Smart contract interaction

Improvements

1. Introduction to zk-snarks
2. Plasma explained in 10min
3. Raiden 101
4. Smart Contracts on Plasma - Christian Reitwiessner (65 min. presentation)
5. Casper PoS & Smart Contract Consensus Overview (90 min. overview)

Ens

1. Devs guide to ENS
2. Ens docs
3. How to buy an ENS domain

Ipfs

1. Introduction to ipfs, overview and technical stuff
2. Short 10min high level overview of IPFS
3. Distributed apps with ipfs 40min lecture by creator

Tools

1. Remix online IDE
2. Metamask - browser plugin to conect with ethereum
3. Truffle dev framework testing and running dApps
4. Embark framework to develop and test dApps
5. HEVM - emv for debugging
6. DAPP - framework for testing and building dApps (lightweight)

Other cool lists

1. Awesome solidity - resource about solidity
2. Awesome ethereum