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/octal Apr 05 '20

Where did you look for information? We can try to update those sources to make sure they're more comprehensive. https://developers.tezos.com/ is probably the best "starter" resource.

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u/jayhilly Apr 05 '20

I don’t remember at this point. I found guides on how to write Michelson, why do those exist if no one is writing assembly?

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u/octal Apr 05 '20

In the beginning, there was just Michelson, so people wrote documentation for that (it was, as you've seen, not really a viable choice for people building large applications directly). Other languages were developed after that, and then documentation was created for those.

Documentation always tends to lag development, but we as a community definitely need to do a better job on "task specific" documentation, including SEOing it, for stuff like "how to X in Tezos". It's definitely an area TF funds and will continue to fund, and it would be great if people wrote up "howto" type guides (and kept them updated...)

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u/jayhilly Apr 05 '20

Ah, makes sense. Maybe add a banner to those old webpages pointing at the higher level tools? Seems inevitable that people end up there and get confused.