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Hands-On Blockchain for Python Developers

You're reading from   Hands-On Blockchain for Python Developers Gain blockchain programming skills to build decentralized applications using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788627856
Length 450 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Arjuna Sky Kok Arjuna Sky Kok
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Blockchain and Smart Contracts
2. Introduction to Blockchain Programming FREE CHAPTER 3. Smart Contract Fundamentals 4. Implementing Smart Contracts Using Vyper 5. Section 2: Web3 and Populus
6. Interacting with Smart Contracts Using Web3 7. Populus Development Framework 8. Building a Practical Decentralized Application 9. Section 3: Frontend Decentralized Applications
10. Frontend Decentralized Application 11. Section 4: Cryptocurrency and Wallets
12. Creating Token in Ethereum 13. Cryptocurrency Wallet 14. Section 5: Decentralized Filesystem
15. InterPlanetary - A Brave New File System 16. Using ipfsapi to Interact with IPFS 17. Implementing a Decentralized Application Using IPFS 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to build a GUI frontend for a smart contract and how to use Qt for Python or the PySide2 library, which utilizes the Qt 5 library. We set time aside to learn how to build a GUI application using Qt for Python. Starting with a simple application, we took into the layout, various widgets, signals and slots, and threading, and we finally gained an understanding of how to use the PySide2 library. We built our smart contract to simulate Twitter in a simple way, delighting in the censorship resistance of this Twitter-like application. Next, we built the GUI frontend. This GUI application uses all the concepts you have learned so far. We used threading to connect to the blockchain so that the GUI would not freeze. We also added additional value through the ability to bookmark in our GUI application.

In the next chapter, you are going to learn how...

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