21isenough / code-demos

Code exercises and demos complementing lecture materials.

Teach Bitcoin with Libbitcoin and Jupyter Notebook.

The code examples and exercises are written in jupyter notebook pages or native C++.

There are two types of jupyter notebook pages in this repository. Pages denoted with BX are command-line scripts which call the Libbitcoin-Explorer command-line utility and require a jupyter bash kernel to run. Pages denoted with cpp are written with Libbitcoin C++ libraries and require a jupyter C++ kernel to run.

Here are the required tools for the TeachBitcoin course.

Libbitcoin-Explorer

• Install with install.sh (Version3)
  • Linux
  • Mac
  • (The install script will install all required Libbitcoin C++ libraries required for the course.)
• Configure Libbitcoin-Explorer for testnet
  • Instructions
  • Example Testnet Config
  • Try bx fetch-height, and compare with a testnet blockexplorer.

Jupyter Notebook and Bash & C++ Kernels

It is recommended to install jupyter notebook from a mini-conda package installer.

• Install the miniconda package-manager.
• Install the Jupyter Notebook and the c++ cling kernel.
• Install the Jupyter Bash Kernel.
• Try to run the notebook pages in this repository

C++ tools

• IDE of your choice.
• Or, any text editor with GCC linter
  • e.g. Atom & linter-gcc