Who this book is for

This book is dedicated to novice programmers, solution architects, and blockchain enthusiasts who want to build powerful, robust, and optimized smart contracts using solidity from scratch and in combination with other open source JavaScript libraries. If you want to build your own extensive, decentralized applications that can smartly execute on a blockchain, then this book is what you need! An open and inquisitive mind is a necessary and sufficient prerequisite. Some preliminary knowledge of data structures, object-oriented programming, networking concepts, and cryptography is a plus and will help  the reader to understand the concepts presented in this book.