Building Blockchain Projects

The book so far is what I hoped it to be and I’m only half way through. Some topics have brief explanations and you must follow the provided link for more and if one isn’t listed search Google. I’m reading on mobile device at times but I recommend going band and follow the code examples. You can’t progress into the next chapter or fully understand what’s happening without doing so.

pleasantly surprised at the contents of the book. I would recommend this to a technical audience who are looking for learning how to program and coding experience from this book. If you are looking for broad conceptual overview then you should consider other books and that may be the reason why some folks did not like this book or gave bad reviews.

FINALLY an actual book on Ethereum that get's down to it and doens't waste time explaining extremely basic concepts of blockchain, etc. This book is written for programmers/coders, etc., people who learn something by playing with it. I'm only about 20% in, but this book reads like a recipe cookbook (like the O'reiley series). Not for crypto tourists (the short-term trader speculators that are screwing up the market).

Took a chance on a cheaper block-chain book. While the information is okay the editing is poor (see partial list below). I might overlook this in a non-programming book, but I’m hesitant to invest my time in working through coding examples from an author that isn’t paying attention to detail. I went to the errata web address provided in the book and found only one typo. This suggests that Packt Publishing isn’t too concerned with the quality of their books.

I like this book. I hadn’t programmed in 20 years, and I am learning enough to at least start making progress on my idea for a distributed app/smart contracts. It’s not a perfect book, but so far the flaws are bearable - e.g., calling almost every function “sample.”

Looking for a tutorial to learn Ethereum? This isn't it! The book is a muddled mess of topics that might best be described as a dictionary of terms pasted together in an incomprehensible stream of consciousness.

Has good information on Ethereum, Blockchain, and Solidity for building your own projects

I don't recommend this book, it is written very poorly in terms of actually communicating. There are some good bits of information but you have to be patient and diligent to get them. Basically it's like every other book written by engineers with no writing skills, a tedious slog that's like pulling teeth. Remember the worst textbook you had in college that managed to make an interesting topic both boring and more difficult than needed? Yeah, it's like that.