Zone01 - Student Program Journey

[DIGIX666]

Hi everyone :)

We are thrilled to create our first issue to share with you the adventure we're about to embark on in Gno.

To start, we are 4 students - @kazai777 (Zak) , @mous1985 (Muss), @MalekLahbib (Malek) , @DIGIX666 (Theo) - at Zone 01 school in Rouen (France).

Through our school, we were able to train in the Go language, therefore , we are excited to be able to come and contribute to GNO.

In this issue, you'll be able to follow all our adventures over the next 3 months.

We're looking forward to interacting with you.

See you soon 👋🏼

Hackerspace issue for https://github.com/gnolang/student-contributors-program/blob/main/zone01-rouen-fr/README.md

[kristovatlas]

Looking forward to following the journey!

[kazai777]

Hi everyone 👋

I've started following the "how-to-guides" section on https://docs.gno.land. It's well explained, but I find it lacking in comparison for a developer who has never worked in blockchain.

For example, having developed in Go, I've deduced that the Render() function in Gno is somewhat equivalent to the main() function in Go, in the sense that it's necessary for executing realms. But there's nothing to confirm whether what I think is true or not. It would be nice to have comparisons between certain things specific to blockchain and things known to traditional developers.

[DIGIX666]

Today, I was able to start getting familiar with Gno by looking at the docs
https://docs.onbloc.xyz/docs/building-a-realm/overview
https://docs.gno.land/getting-started/local-setup/

I also encountered my first problem during my make install in the gno/ repo.

To check the install, I used the gno command but got command not found.

So, I looked in my /usr/local/go/bin but only found go, while the executables were in ~/go/bin/.

To solve the problem, I added the command export GOBIN=/usr/local/go/bin/ to my .zshrc and after that everything worked very well.

Update : To solve the problem, without having to change the rights of the /usr/local/go/bin folder, and so that the binary in ~/go/bin executes globally on the system, add the following line in the .zshrc to replace GOBIN=/usr/local/go/bin :

export GOPATH="$HOME/go"
PATH="$GOPATH/bin:$PATH"

when trying to install the GNO extension on vsCode, the command was asked to be done

What I find odd about this installation is that @kazai777, who also uses an Apple Silicon Mac, didn't need to do this.

Tomorrow, I'll be diving into the "How-to guides" and "GnoDev".

[mous1985]

What We Do:

Explore :

• Dive into the Getting Started with Gno guide and the GnoLand Documentation.

Tutorial:

• Follow the step-by-step tutorial available at How to build a forum in Gno.land and How to build a microblog

Installing gno & basic testing for smart contracts(realms):

• Grasp the fundamentals of realms and packages in gno .

Feedback:

• The docs.gno.land provided a clearer understanding of realms and packages compared to the Getting Started guide .
• The step-by-step guidance in the How to build a microblog and How to build a forum in Gno.land significantly boosted understanding.

[MalekLahbib]

More about us:

After my colleagues explained who we are, what we're doing, we hope that we'll be part of the gno family in the long run, to participate and leave a legacy.

As we begun diving into the docs, we found that the pages order is not logical for new developers who wants to learn about gnolang. As we discussed with @moul, we'll suggest some modification as we dive more.

We yet made a PR #1712 to modify the testing command in testing-gno page. (first fingerprint 😛 )

[DIGIX666]

Today

I created a new PR for a change in local Setup

Update : PR validate and merge

[DIGIX666]

Review of my last week

I have test counter-app and poll. After the call with @gfanton, I'm back to testing gnodev and I see my first errors with that 🥲

Today

I create to issue : gnodev and gno.mod

[MalekLahbib]

After following @leohhhn 's whitelist tutorial, I created an issue with modification suggestions, issue 1794.

It was very interesting as I encountered some problems and errors that helped me understand more how gno ecosystem works, and in the same time helped @leohhhn to know about some bugs in the code (I hope :) ).

I hope that our experience will help the next trainees to understand easier the gno ecosystem.

[MalekLahbib]

A quick update: A day of work with @moul in a coworking yesterday 21th march was very productive:

• I coded a package and a realm for a todolist.I submitted a PR 1811. May be a V2 will be added in the future. (web3 interaction with adena wallet?)

• I submitted an issue concerning the fact that ufmt.Sprintf doesn't display unicode emojis. We discussed the problem and @moul challenged me to modify the function to make it work: Challenge accepted.

• I added also an issue concerning default CSS, as we noticed that the github checkbox wasn't displayed as it should (issue 1815.

[kazai777]

To continue my gno apprenticeship, I created a lottery gnolotto. It took me a while to figure out how to send funds to a realm so that I could automatically manage the prizepool for distribution to the winners. I've discovered the different functions of std, and now I'm coding the part to manage the funds in my realm to finish my lottery.

Update: I've finished my lottery, but unfortunately I wasn't able to generate totally random winning numbers using math/rand, so I've created a function that generates pseudo-random numbers based on the height of the block, as suggested by @leohhhn.