Alonzo-testnet VS plutus-pioneer-program

ghc version: The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 8.10.4 cloned git clone https://github.com/input-output-hk/Alonzo-testnet.git

Have you tried: this one

I am looking for a step-by-step walk-through of deploying smart contracts on testnet/mainnet as well. Put the smart contract Haskell programming aside, would like to have a bird's-eye view of the whole Cardano SC life cycle. Best I can find is https://github.com/input-output-hk/Alonzo-testnet. However, no "model answer" starting from Exercise 5. Would be appreciated if somebody can find a better one.

The documentation of todays roll-out of the public Test-Net is quite "vague" with regard to this:

If you're a developer looking to explore developing something on their testnet, the link I pointed to above is where you'd go. You can also start here: https://github.com/input-output-hk/Alonzo-testnet

It's publicly readable now

Documentation

To test it you need to have an environment to run Cardano Alonzo : https://github.com/input-output-hk/Alonzo-testnet

If you want an easy entry into Plutus and Cardano smart contracts take a look at https://demeter.run/ and plutus pioneer program cohort 4 content

and the course materials, including assignments and HW are updated weekly here: https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus-pioneer-program

Step Three: learn Plutus. Check out the Plutus Pioneer Program.

GitHub repo

There's a little more to it than cloning an existing repo and installing it somewhere. I think the very first thing you should do is go through the pioneers program. https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus-pioneer-program