IOHK releases the first edition of the Plutus ebook, a guide to programming smart contracts on Cardano

Input-Output Hong Kong, a research and development company behind the Cardano project, has just released the first edition of their Plutus ebook.

The book, which will be available on Amazon and LeanPub, is a comprehensive guide to the company's Plutus programming language and aims to simplify the development experience on Cardano.

Following the success of its Haskell-based functional programming language, IOHK decided to create and publish a comprehensive guide on Plutus.

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According to IOHK's blog post, the guide was created by the company's education team to simplify the development experience on Cardano.

Lars Brünjes and Polina Vinogradova, the main authors of the book, said that the main idea behind the ebook was to make it easier for people interested in writing high-assurance smart contracts to get started with Plutus.

IOHK said that the new Plutus ebook covers everything from how smart contracts interact with the blockchain down to working code examples with line-by-line explanations.

The launch of the Plutus ebook is part of IOHK's larger effort to bring more people into the Cardano ecosystem.

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