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This primer contains a series of tutorials explaining IPFS, Merkle Trees and the Decentralized Web. It's written and maintained as a so people can read it in many formats.
The GitHub repository for this book is at .
During these tutorials, if you have any questions feel free to ask them in or in . We have a large, active community who use these venues as our main places to seek support and to provide it.
The primer contains tutorials about
For a full list of tutorials, look at the .
Cryptographic Hashes and Content Addressability
Authenticated Graphs
Turning Files into Trees
Turning any Data into Trees
Publishing hashes on the DHT
Getting data from the Peer to Peer Network
Immutability: "Changes" as additions to the tree
CRDTs
Pubsub
Authenticated Streams (with pubsub)
To build the HTML, PDF, epub and mobi versions of the book with one command, run ./build-book.sh
Contributors to those original docs included
@whyrusleeping
@jbenet
@lgierth
@lynnandtonic
@wraithgar
@adambrault
@donothesitate
@djdv
Each tutorial is a set of lessons that all use a format inspired by the . Each lesson declares a set of Goals, or , then lists the Steps, or activities, and finally provides an Explanation that reviews what you've done and connects those activities to the lesson's stated Goals. The format for each lesson looks like this:
For a concise explanation of Learning Objectives (which we're calling Goals in this book), read UC Denver's . Try to make your learning objectives and heed their tip to use the list of verbs in the to help you choose observable behaviors for your course learning objectives.
This primer was created by @flyingzumwalt. The contents of these tutorials were initially pulled from documentation in the first-generation documentation homed on the IPFS website and the (now-inactive) IPFS examples git repository. (Find them in their new homes on , particularly the section.)
plus a long list of to the original examples repository
