Solana Development Course

by James Pacheco and others

Welcome to the best place for Web Developers looking to learn Web3 development. Solana's high speed, low cost, and energy efficiency make it the ideal network to build on.

Introduction

Module 1

Introduction

Get started

dApp development

Module 1

Introduction to cryptography and Solana clients

Cryptography fundamentals

Lab: Create and load keypairs

Read data from the network

Lab: Connect to Solana and check account balances

Write data to the network

Lab: Make transactions and use Explorer

Lab: Make transactions for a custom onchain program

Interact with wallets

Lab: Make a React frontend to the Ping program

Serialize program data

Lab: Build a React frontend to submit movie reviews

Deserialize program data

Lab: Build a React frontend to show movie reviews

Page, Order, and Filter program data

Lab: Adding paging, ordering and searching to the movie reviews frontend

Module 2

Client Interaction with Common Solana Programs

Create tokens with the Token Program

Lab: Mint, transfer and burn tokens

Swap tokens with the Token Swap Program

Lab: Creating instructions to add, withdraw and swap tokens

Create Solana NFTs With Metaplex

Lab: Mint NFTs, update their metadata, and associate with a collection

On-chain program development

Module 1

Basic Solana Program Development

Hello World

Lab: Create and deploy a 'hello world' on-chain program

Handle Instruction Data

Lab: Make an on-chain program that recieves movie reviews and deserialises them

State Management

Lab: Make an on-chain program that stores movie reviews

Basic Security and Validation

Lab: Add security checks and updates to the movie reviews program

Module 2

Intermediate Solana Program Development

Local Program Development

Lab: Configure Windows, Mac and Linux for localhost Solana development

Program Derived Addresses

Lab: Use PDAs to store comments for the movie reviews program

Cross Program Invocations

Lab: Use CPIs to mint token rewards for reviews and comments

Program Testing

Module 3

Anchor Program Development

Intro to Anchor development

Lab: Create and deploy a ping-counter on-chain app using Anchor

Intro to client-side Anchor development

Lab: Create a React and Anchor frontend for the ping-counter app

Anchor PDAs and accounts

Lab: Use Anchor to create a Movie Review program

Anchor CPIs and errors

Lab: Mint token rewards for reviews

Module 4

Beyond the Basics

Environment variables in Solana programs

Lab: Create feature flags to help test locally

Solana Pay

Lab: Use QR codes to create payment requests

Versioned transactions and lookup tables

Lab: Using a lookup table to handle many accounts in a single transaction

Rust procedural macros

Lab: Use Rust macros to generate program code

Module 5

Solana Program Security

How to approach the Program Security unit

Signer authorization

Lab: Check signers are correct before processing transactions

Owner checks

Lab: Check owners are correct before processing transactions

Account data matching

Lab: Check account data is correct before processing transactions

Reinitialization attacks

Lab: Ensure accounts can only be initialised once to prevent overriding existing data

Duplicate mutable accounts

Lab: Ensure accounts are distinct

Type cosplay

Lab: Implement checks for correct account types

Arbitrary CPIs

Lab: Ensure CPIs are only called by the correct program

Bump seed canonicalization

Lab: Ensure bump seeds are always canonical

Closing accounts and revival attacks

Lab: Ensure accounts that are closed can't be reused

PDA sharing

Lab: Ensure PDA design avoids shared accounts

Module 6

Advanced Solana Programming

Program architecture

Lab: Create an optimized on-chain RPG game

Oracles and oracle networks

Lab: Use Switchboard to create an Escrow program

Verifiable randomness functions

Lab: Add randomness to the Escrow program

Compressed NFTs

Lab: Mint, read and transfer NFTs at scale with Bubblegum