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Blockchain Development training
Learn how blockchains work and build simple decentralised applications and smart contracts.
Course overview
Learn how blockchains work and how to build simple decentralised applications. You will study the core ideas, write smart contracts and connect them to a basic web interface.
Requirements
- Basic programming knowledge
- A computer
- Interest in how blockchains work
What you will learn
- Explain how blockchains and consensus work
- Write and test simple smart contracts
- Connect a smart contract to a web interface
- Understand blockchain security and limits
Practical projects
- A simple token or voting smart contract
- A small decentralised app with a web interface
Skills you will gain
- Blockchain concepts
- Smart contracts
- Solidity basics
- Web3 integration
- Blockchain security
Career and application opportunities
- Junior blockchain developer
- Smart contract developer
- Web3 front-end developer
Curriculum
1Blockchain foundations
- What a blockchain is
- Blocks, hashes and chains
- Consensus mechanisms
- Cryptocurrency versus blockchain technology
2Wallets and networks
- Public and private keys
- Wallets
- Test networks
- Transactions and gas
3Smart contracts
- What smart contracts are
- Introduction to Solidity
- Writing a first contract
- Testing and deploying contracts
4Building a decentralised app
- Connecting a web interface
- Reading and writing blockchain data
- Handling wallets in an app
- Common patterns
5Security and practice
- Common smart contract vulnerabilities
- Auditing basics
- Limits and risks of blockchain
- Capstone project
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