The Skills You Need to Be a Blockchain Developer

The skills you need to work on to become a blockchain developer.

Alex Roan
The Startup

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Photo by John Schnobrich on Unsplash

Whether you’ve never coded before, or have multiple years of experience developing software, becoming a Blockchain developer requires a new set of skills. Identifying which skills you need can be difficult if the industry is new to you.

Whichever camp you find yourself in, this article describes the skills you need to make a start developing in the Blockchain industry.

Starting From Scratch

For those with little or no coding experience, start by learning these skills before moving on to the more advanced stuff. Skip this section if you already have coding experience.

Command Line

“A command-line interface processes commands to a computer program in the form of lines of text.” — Wikipedia

Getting used to the command line is essential for any budding software developer. At first, it can seem like gobbledygook, but once you get used to it you won’t ever work without it.

The best place to start is by learning on a Unix or Linux command-line interface. Most development activities are performed on Unix backed systems. If you have a Mac, the CLI is Unix based, so…

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Alex Roan
The Startup

CoFounder at Cyfrin. Previously: Chainlink Labs.