Andamio

About Cardano Go Live Coding

Cardano Go Live Coding meets on Mondays from 1300-1400 UTC.

Adding a New Island to Andamio CLI

We are building Andamio CLI with a Go library called Cobra. Cobra provides boilerplate functionality that makes it quick and easy to build a command-line interface. To structure our weekly live coding sessions, we are building "islands" of activity within Andamio CLI. On each island, we can all try new things: adding functionality and learning how to use different libraries in the Cardano Go developer ecosystem.

In our first session, we created islands for writing data and for querying the blockchain. This week, we added an island for building transactions. We are documenting our islands, as we build them, on Miro:

Building a Simple Transaction

For our first transaction, Professor Mix showed us how to create a simple command for sending lovelace from one wallet to another. Just like our first example of writing metadata and our first query, this is a simple transaction that can be used as a starting point for more interesting (and helpful!) transactions. This was our first experience using the Apollo Library, which provides "Cardano Pure Golang Building Blocks".

In case you missed it, the video is on YouTube:

Up Next:

Now that we have some islands to work with, we will define some potential features, add to public Notion Dashboard and Cardano Go Live Coding Miro Board
We'll continue to add new experimental islands to andamio-cli by thinking about "sub-islands" (although we might need a better word for these!). For example, andamio-cli transaction might include andamio-cli transaction mint and andamio-cli transaction reference-script.

Follow the project:

Notion page - public dashboard
Andamio CLI on GitHub

Register for Weekly Live Coding Sessions

Every Monday 1300-1400 UTC

If you’re just getting started

If you are a brand new to Go, check out the official tutorial. Then, take a look at Go by Example - it's a great introduction.
On YouTube: How to write beautiful Golang CLI is a helpful overview of Cobra CLI, and it illustrates the design patterns we're using with Andamio CLI
Cardano Go PBL is currently in development - we'll share more soon!