From the course: Blockchain: Learning Solidity
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Installing the Solidity compiler
From the course: Blockchain: Learning Solidity
Installing the Solidity compiler
- [Instructor] Although we won't use the compiler in this course, as we'll focus on the code examples with VS Code, you can either use Remix, which is an online environment, or still use the compiler. In any case, go to install. And as we explored a little bit earlier, and I want to explore a little bit more further on this video, these are the options for you. The first one is Remix. This is the online environment and you can click here to access it. So this is a full online environment as if you had the compiler installed for you. And basically you can start writing contracts directly here and test the code that we're going to go through in this course, with the compiler doing all its work for you. That's one option. What it would do if you're considering other options and you're just getting started, I would scroll down to the Docker area. Docker, in my opinion, if you're familiar with it, is the simplest way to…
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