Course Overview

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COURSE DEVELOPED SEPT 16, 2021: 10 hours of new videos and 11 new labs!

This course is designed for beginning to intermediate Ethereum Developers who want to take a comprehensive deep dive in writing smart contracts and building the applications that interact with them. This course provides a detailed overview of Ethereum, smart contracts, and the Solidity development language. Students will learn what Ethereum is, how it works, and where it can be applied to create great solutions. Students will also get to explore Ethereum app development through a series of comprehensive hands-on labs.

This class is designed for those who prefer to develop the skills they need on their time and at their own pace. You will be provided one year of access to the class and all supporting course material. This course also prepares you for the Certified Blockchain Developer Ethereum exam.

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What's included

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With class you will receive:

• One year of unlimited access to course content
• Certified Blockchain Ethereum Developerexam voucher
• Ability to stop, pause rewind and move through all chapters
• Sample quiz questions in Course Content
• Exam Prep Digital Course Material: View from anywhere and any device

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Audience

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• People who have heard of Ethereum, but do not know how to start
• People who already have some experience with programming in general, but no solidity experience
• People who want to know how this technology works
• People who wrote simple solidity code but want to dive deeper into the subject

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Outline

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The History of Ethereum

• The Quest for Digital Money (1975-2008)
• Bitcoin (2008-2009)
• Ethereum (2015)
• Hyperledger (2015)

How is Ethereum used?

• Ether
• ERC-20
• ERC-721
• Smart Contracts
• Blockchain 2.0 == Decentralization + Permanence

How does Ethereum work?

• Mining vs non-mining nodes
• PoW
• PoS
• Ethereum 2.0 Upgrade
• Gas

What does an Ethereum application look like?

• Blockchain Application Layers
• Voting Demo

Solution Design Considerations

• IPFS, IoTA
• Deterministic Concurrency
• Security Best Practices
• Public vs Private network instances

Ethereum Hands-On Labs

1. The Remix IDE
2. MetaMask and the Test Networks
3. Infura.io
4. Web3.js
5. Events
6. Function Modifiers
7. Mappings and Structs
8. Inheritance
9. Deploying to Live Networks
10. Creating Your Own ERC-20 Token
11. Creating Your Own ERC-721 Token

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Objectives

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• Understand the tools needed to create smart contracts
• Write and read secure Solidity code
• Avoiding and Understanding Costly Bugs and Blockchain Programming Errors
• Understanding the development and deployment process
• Understand of the Benefits and Drawbacks of Blockchain Technologies
• Understand how private networks can be leveraged
• Learn how to leverage the publicly available test networks and the public main network
• Understand how transactions are structured
• Learn how gas and gas costs can be estimated
• Ethereum 2.0 - What's Different and Ethereum Shards
• Learn to use the Remix IDE
• Learn about Metamask and software-based wallets
• Explore remote endpoint services and learn how they can facilitate the development experience
• Get hands-on with Events and Event Handlers in Smart Contract solutions
• Use Function Modifiers to create permissioned solutions
• Learn about the various data types in Ethereum and how they are properly used
• Understand Smart Contract inheritance and object-oriented development principles
• Create your own custom coins and tokens

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Prerequisites

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• Absolutely necessary: ​​Basic knowledge in JavaScript / HTML
• Absolutely necessary: ​​A computer (Windows / Linux / Mac)
• Advantageous: basic knowledge in C ++ / Java, data types
• Advantageous: basic knowledge with git repositories
• Advantageous: basic knowledge of solidity

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