Understanding Ethereum – Top 10+ Free Web Resources (Books, PDFs)

Ethereum is a Blockchain app platform that maintains a secure decentralized generalized transaction ledger and runs smart contracts. Smart contracts are, primarily, apps/programs which run on decentralized network and carry out transactions (manipulate digital unit of value) based on pre-defined contracts. Understanding Ethereum is key for blockchain developers as it has become a shared global infrastructure for moving value around and representing the ownership of property with the help of smart contracts.

In this post, you will get some good URLs/links to pages (or PDFs) on the internet which provides good read/help docs for understanding Ethereum and get started with it in an easy manner.

• Ethereum Website Help Documentation: Provides detailed information on Ethereum. Right from the horses’ mouth
• Mastering Ethereum (Book) on Github: Must-read for Ethereum enthusiasts
• Ethereum Whitepaper by Dr. Gavin Wood – PDF: Deep dive into Ethereum
• Great collection of Ethereum pages on Reddit
• Ethereum presentation from Texas A&M University Faculty – PDF
• Ethereum – State of Knowledge and Research Perspectives (PDF): A paper by Sergei Tikhomirov, University of Luxembourg
• Ethereum Builder’s Guide – Both Web pages and PDF version for read
• Ethereum in Practice – Quick Start Guide
• Step-by-step Beginners Guide on Ethereum: Present good perspective with help of images/videos etc.
• A Programmer’s guide to Ethereum and Serpent – PDF
• Ethereum and Banking use cases: Provides details on banking use cases which could make use of smart contracts.
• Blockchain, Ethereum and business applications – PDF
• Blockchain (Ethereum) Consensus Model: Discusses details on Ethereum consensus model.
• What is Ether?

Summary

In this post, you got details in relation to some good reading resources on internet/web for understanding Ethereum.

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