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tags: hackathons, tezos

title: Hackathon Workshop John Newby
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**Tools for building a Tezos Dapp**:

*Format: Presentation + Workshop + Q&A*

**Detail**s: This workshop will introduce the most commonly used smart contract languages on the Tezos blockchain, SmartPy and CameLIGO, along with the Taquito Javascript SDK, and PyTezos, the Python SDK. We will look at the source code for a bonding curve contract in SmartPy and CameLIGO, cover unit and integration testing, and look at front-end code which interacts with the contract. After this quick tour of Tezos development you should have the tools you need in order to build Dapps on Tezos.

**Speaker**: John Newby, Director TZ Connect GmbH

**Building on Tezos**

*Format: Presentation + Q&A*

**Details**: This workshop will introduce the most commonly used smart contract languages on the Tezos blockchain, SmartPy and CameLIGO, along with the Taquito Javascript SDK, and PyTezos, the Python SDK. After this quick tour of Tezos development, we will dive deeper into the topics of NFTs and DAOs, where participants can ask their questions related to the projects they are working on.

**Hosts**: Jantine Derksen, John Newby