// Introduction & Setup
Welcome to Solana Development
Solana is a high-performance blockchain supporting builders around the world creating crypto apps that scale today.
What you'll learn
→The Solana programming model
→How accounts work on Solana
→Your first interaction with the network
The Account Model
Every piece of data on Solana lives in an account. Think of accounts like files in a filesystem.
rust
pub struct MyAccount {
pub authority: Pubkey,
pub data: u64,
pub bump: u8,
}Setting Up Your Environment
bash
# Install Rust curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh # Install Solana CLI sh -c "$(curl -sSfL https://release.solana.com/stable/install)"