Quick Start

Welcome to the Solana Quick Start Guide! This hands-on guide will introduce you to the core concepts for building on Solana, regardless of your prior experience. By the end of this tutorial, you'll have a basic foundation in Solana development and be ready to explore more advanced topics.

What You'll Learn

In this tutorial, you'll learn about:

• Understanding Accounts: Explore how data is stored on the Solana network.
• Sending Transactions: Learn to interact with the Solana network by sending transactions.
• Building and Deploying Programs: Create your first Solana program and deploy it to the network.
• Program Derived Addresses (PDAs): Learn how to use PDAs to create deterministic addresses for accounts.
• Cross-Program Invocations (CPIs): Learn how to make your programs interact with other programs on Solana.

The best part? You don't need to install anything! We'll be using Solana Playground, a browser-based development environment, for all our examples. This means you can follow along, copy and paste code, and see results immediately, all from your web browser. Basic programming knowledge is helpful but not required.

Let's dive in and start building on Solana!

Solana Playground

Solana Playground (Solpg) is a browser-based development environment that allows you to quickly develop, deploy, and test Solana programs!

Open a new tab in your web browser and navigate to https://beta.solpg.io/.