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Indicative Content

  • Setting up a development environment

    • Operating system (Linux, MacOsX, Windows)
    • Ethereu Nodes
    • Git & Git clients
    • Editors and IDEs

  • Review of Blockchain Technologies

    • Blockchain Context
    • Distributed ledgers & DLT platforms
    • Consensus Mechanisms
    • Transactions and Blocks
    • Mining and staking
    • Network Peer Dsicovery and messaging

  • Blockchain Basics

    • Cryptography & merkle trees
    • Blockchain structure
    • Smart contracts
    • Blockchain nodes
    • Forks

  • Ethereum Primitives

    • History
    • White Paper & Yellow Paper
    • Blocks
    • EVM - Ethereum Virtual machine
    • Elliptic curve cryptography
    • MainNet and Testnet
    • Etherscan
    • Ethereum 2.0

  • Development Frameworks

    • Truffle
    • Setting up Truffle
    • Hardhat
    • Setting uo HardHat
    • Brownie
    • Setting up Brownie

  • Solidity Fundamentals

    • Basic Layout and structure of a smart contract
    • Data types and variables
    • Functions
    • Storage and memory
    • Reading Smart contracts
    • Smart contract Application Binary Interface (ABI)
    • Events and Logs
    • Factory contracts

  • Writing Smart Contracts

    • Basic Smart contracts
    • Intercontract execution
    • Inheritance
    • Libraries and the Ethereum Package manager
    • Smart Contract System Design
    • Examples I: Proof of Existence, Simple Bank, Supply Chains
    • Examples II: Voting, tokens

  • Token standards

  • Solidity Smart contract libraries and Design Patterns

  • Ethereum and the End user

    • web3.0 Introduction
    • Web3.0 packages: ether.js / Web3.js / web3.py
    • Web3.js to a contracts
    • metamask
    • Integrating with react

  • Templates for Creating Dapps

  • Testing and Debugging

Further afield:

  • Decentralised Finance
  • Decentralised Autonomous Organisations
  • Interplanetary FileSystem
  • The Graph
  • Oracles

Learning outcomes:

By Following the Companion, learners will be able to show evidence of:

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  • Describe Blockchain primitives and basics and give examples for their usage.
  • Prepare and demonstrate setting up a development environment for Ethereum.
  • Compose basic Smart contracts and their tests and deploy them in a test environment.
  • Produce an evaluation of common security issues in smart contracts.
  • Build, Deploy and showcase a decentralised application on Ethereum. '''
  • Indicative Workload: Minimum 10 hours per week, with at least 4 hours per week hands-on practice.
  • Recommended Workload: 20 hours per week, with 10 hours per week devoted to hands-on practice.