I'm a programmer. What can I do with Cardano?

[Steve]

There’s some good resources in this thread for starting out with smart contracts:

How to start learning to develop smart contacts

Hello, Smart contacts are a super interesting concept but I find it hard to learn how to develop them. I am a Java backed developer and find it too hard to understand the papers. Cardanodocs is good for learning proof of steak, Cardano SL, tools, broader concepts and Plutus as a language. But I couldn’t find an actual smart contact example. Also on YouTube I couldn’t find something. Should I start with Solidity first and then move on to Cardano? Best, Sandro