Alonzo-testnet VS plutus-starter

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

This is pretty bad advice - you might not need a node to write dapps, but you'll sure as hell want a local Plutus dev environment for the smoothest experience. Take it from someone with an M1 - the setup process is a pain, compile times are poor, and it'll be difficult to get your language server up and running for proper syntax highlighting. Some repos like https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus-starter don't seem to work even when Nix is configured to run it on Rosetta 2. Like the other commenter, I've resigned myself to ssh tunneling into a development Linux NUC, which has its own annoyances.

This what you wanted? https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus-starter

I love how the Cardano devs are making Plutus Dev Env as easy as possible to install and use. Just install Docker on your OS and:

Feel free to check the Cardano starter example project on Github