/blockchain_curriculum

Blockchain Curriculum Draft

Rough draft for a blockchain course based on the ethereum blockchain/solidity

Overview of course flow:

  • {TODO: note on what to do} just denotes a todo of cirriculumn that needs to still be done/written/reworked
  • Note: R: denotes areas still needed to reserach
  • The course should follow this type of flow for each of the following
    1. Theory lecture
    2. Walkthrough
    3. Exercise
  • The end flow of this course intends to be as follows below (keep in mind this is a rough draft/notes at the moment):

Objectives

  • In this chapter we will be cover a few topics:
  1. Something
  2. Something else
  • These three topics will give us a surface level understanding of these concepts so that you as engineer can:
    • Understand Something
    • Be able to explain some topic/concept

Section Title

Subsections Title

Sub-Subsections Title

Closing Summary

Index

  • Provide definitions to keywords that were provided throughout the lesson

Summing It Up

  • Provide a short summarization/explanation for each lecture objective

Resources

  • Provide any helpful links that you used to write the lesson
  • Or any link you think would be helpful for students to read through
    • Even if you place the link in the text somewhere you should still provide it here

Chapter 1 Objectives

  • Understand + provide context behind blockchain technology
  • Give some use cases/industries on blockchain

Chapter 1: Context

  • Why use blockchain? Well there's 3 reasons:

    1. Transparency

    2. Trustless

    3. Secure

      • Does this via cryptographic hashing.

  • Examples app's:

    • Here are some example applications used in the wild for far:
    • DAI is a good example of a stable coin - or a coin that is built with stability in mind, as it doesn't fluxuate in prices as drastically. Because no one like's loosing money.
    • Argent - a DAPP that is also a mobile wallet
    • UniSwap - allows you to trade one coin for another

  • {TODO: continue in blockchain lesson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwSl2xwl2-w&t=1379s}

{TODO: fill out closing summary section}

Closing Summary

Index

  • Provide definitions to keywords that were provided throughout the lesson

Summing It Up

  • Provide a short summarization/explanation for each lecture objective

Resources

Chapter 2: Setup

{TODO: fil in chapter 2 notes.}

{TODO: convert notes to template format}

Chapter 3: Taxes

  • blockchain undoubtedly will pull people into the crypto sphere. Need to absolutely include a section on taxes so the IRS doesn't come running after you. You gotta pay what's due.

Chapter 4: Getting the ball rolling

{TODO: fill in chapter 3 material/notes}

{TODO: convert notes to template format}

Template credited to:

​ Roger Campbell