Native onchain development - Updated program state management lesson #413
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| - A Program Derived Address (PDA) is derived from a program ID and optional | ||
| seeds, and it is used as the address for a storage account. |
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This is better than the old version but we can improve it by starting with the purpose (storing data).
| - A Program Derived Address (PDA) is derived from a program ID and optional | |
| seeds, and it is used as the address for a storage account. | |
| - State is stored in a Program Derived Address (PDA) accounts. A PDA is derived from a program ID and optional seeds, and the data inside is determined by the programmer. |
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Improved this as per suggestions.
| This model is flexible but can be challenging if you're unfamiliar with it. In | ||
| this lesson, we'll start simple and gradually introduce more complex programs. | ||
| You'll learn the basics of state management in a Solana program, including | ||
| representing the state as a Rust type, creating accounts using PDAs, and | ||
| serializing account data. |
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| This model is flexible but can be challenging if you're unfamiliar with it. In | |
| this lesson, we'll start simple and gradually introduce more complex programs. | |
| You'll learn the basics of state management in a Solana program, including | |
| representing the state as a Rust type, creating accounts using PDAs, and | |
| serializing account data. | |
| This model is simple, providing an easy-to-use key-value store to store data, and allowing programs to be upgraded without affecting their data, but can be challenging if you're familiar with older blockchains. In | |
| this lesson, we'll start simple and gradually introduce more complex programs. | |
| You'll learn the basics of state management in a Solana program, including | |
| representing the state as a Rust type, creating accounts using PDAs, and | |
| serializing account data. |
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Again yours was better than the old one, but we can go even further. PDAs are simple, they're generally only hard for Eth people.
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Updated for better readability and clarity. Let me know if it needs further improvement.
| All Solana accounts have a data field that holds a byte array, making accounts | ||
| as flexible as files on a computer. You can store anything in an account, as | ||
| long as it has the necessary storage space. | ||
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| All Solana accounts have a `data` field that holds a byte array. This makes | ||
| accounts as flexible as files on a computer. You can store literally anything in | ||
| an account (so long as the account has the storage space for it). | ||
| Just like files in a traditional filesystem conform to specific formats like PDF | ||
| or MP3, data stored in a Solana account must follow a pattern to be retrieved | ||
| and deserialized into something usable. |
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Excellent, concise simple explanation.
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| [first part of this lesson](basic-program-pt-1), this is very similar to what we | ||
| did when we created an enum to represent discrete instructions. | ||
| Rust data type. This is similar to how we created an enum to represent discrete | ||
| instructions in the [first part of this lesson](basic-program-pt-1). |
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I think this link is bad. Previous lesson should be deserialize-instruction-data. See CONTRIBUTING for how to do links (it's unusual, but there's. reason for it)
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Fixed link as per guidelines to point to the enum section.
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Thanks! @mikemaccana I have updated the content and resolved all the comments. Please review and let me know if there is any additional feedback. |
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More excellent work and another winner. 🏆 |
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Updated program code - https://beta.solpg.io/66d67458cffcf4b13384d331