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Solana program development for complete beginners using Rust and Anchor.

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Lesson breakdown

You'll understand what blockchain is, how Solana differs from other networks, and why it's ideal for building fast, low-cost programs.
You'll grasp Rust's ownership system, borrowing rules, and core syntax patterns essential for writing safe Solana programs.
You'll learn how Anchor simplifies Solana development and write your first basic program skeleton with proper instruction handlers.
You'll understand Solana's account model and use Anchor's constraint macros to safely validate accounts before executing program logic.

About this study

“Solana program development for complete beginners using Rust and Anchor.” is a free, 4-lesson study on Solana program development for complete beginners using Rust and Anchor. at novice level, created with soclever, a personal AI teacher. Each lesson takes a few minutes and ends with a check-in question; finish the curriculum and you can take a certificate test to earn a diploma. Starting is free and needs no account — or generate your own study on any topic.

What you'll learn

Blockchain Basics and Why Solana. Most financial transactions today rely on a middleman—a bank, a payment processor, a company that keeps records and decides whether your money moves. That middleman takes a cut,…

Rust Syntax and Ownership Fundamentals. When you write code on the Solana network, your program needs to move data around—passing it between functions, storing it, changing it. Rust won't let you be careless about who…

Anchor Framework and Program Structure. Without a clear structure, your smart contract becomes a pile of disconnected code that's impossible to test, deploy, or fix. Anchor solves this by giving you a template—a…

Solana Accounts and Constraint Validation. On the Solana network, every piece of data your Smart contract touches lives in an account). An account is a container on the blockchain that holds both the data itself and…

Questions this study answers

What is the main difference between how a traditional bank stores financial records and how a blockchain does?

If you pass a value to a function and ownership transfers, what happens if you try to use that value again in the calling code?

What is the main problem Anchor solves when writing Solana smart contracts, and how does it solve it?

What happens when an account fails to pass one of Anchor's constraints before your program instruction runs?

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