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Basics

The mental model everything else builds on

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15 chapters, in the order the concepts build

  1. —A Primer on Anchor
  2. 01Hello World
  3. 02Account Data
  4. 03Storing Global State — Counter
  5. 04Saving Per-User State — Favorites
  6. 05Checking Instruction Accounts
  7. 06Closing Accounts
  8. 07Creating Accounts
  9. 08Cross Program Invocations
  10. 09PDA Rent-Payer
  11. 10Processing Instructions
  12. 11Storing Data in Program Derived Addresses
  13. 12Accounts That Expand in Size — Realloc
  14. 13Calculating Account Size to Determine Rent
  15. 14Laying Out Larger Programs
  16. 15Transferring SOL
  17. —Appendix: Hello World Without Anchor
  18. —Glossary

Every chapter: the concept, the project structure, the full program walked through piece by piece, and the real test suite — pinned to the exact upstream commit.

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