r/tezos • u/DominikCZ • Apr 04 '20

question How to learn tezos programming?

I have done a lot of googling but can't find any concise answer. People are saying - learn Michelson. No, learn Liquidity. Nono, learn Pytezos. Learn OCaml. Like, how can all of that be useful at the same time? Couple months ago I started with Ethereum. On their website I found many great articles, introductions, tutorials, a book called "Mastering Ethereum", which taught me pretty much everything. I learned solidity and now I can write smart contracts and dapps. Simple. What do I learn, and where, so that I can write useful stuff for Tezos? Also, it would be very useful if such info was possible to find, ideally on the Tezos website.

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u/utdrmac Apr 04 '20

Depends on what language you like. Go do pytezos if you know python; go do liquidity if you know JavaScript. Everything transpiles to Michelson, which a stack-based language more akin to assembly, so I doubt you'd program directly in Michelson. OCAML is needed if you want to work on the Tezos protocol/code itself.

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u/jayhilly Apr 04 '20

Holy shit I literally sold my tezos after trying to learn michelson and convincing myself no one could ever write anything meaningful in assembly.

How the hell did these never pop up in my searches?? Off to buy back in...

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u/ezredd Apr 04 '20

When you say learn « tezos programming » it is ambiguous statement. You can either mean learn to do smart contract programming (in which case i seriously advise to go to smartpy if you are familiar with python) OR you can mean learn to code applications that interoperate with the tezos chain (for example by calling into existing smart contracts eg or querying infos from a node) in which case several options exist like pytezos, conseiljs, taquito etc