👩‍💻 web2 to web3 🚀

🖍 a curated, free, and open-source web3 curriculum

📚 prerequisites: You need to know how to write javascript!

Week 1 - 👩‍🔬 Becoming A Power User

day 1: intro %TODO% - %%% we'll come back to this and fill in whatever details we need to cover up front %%%

discussions: Blockchains, decentralization, Unstoppable apps, money/incentives at the protocol, coordination

Redundancy, Censorship resistance, web3 cron jobs are different, trust (escrow is a good way to explain)

simple to code, composability, compounding pace

apps: what are people building? NFT, DEFI, DAOS - disclaimer: some garbage

gotchas: expensive, mnemonic lost means everything lost, chain is hard to parse, apps are centralized, so much noise

future: building coordination games for nation states - funding public goods - radical markets?
day 2: wallets, "an account is just a big number you pick"

private key in eth.build, learn how to keep a mnemonic safe

learn how to send eth, learn how to use etherscan

setup a metamask and drop testnet/ETH to everyone to send around
day 3: Get an ENS (talk about identity), swap to a stable coin (talk about DEXs and stables)

notice how your ENS follows you to Uniswap and you can see your stables in zapper

where is this going? DIDs/cermaic/Lens
day 4: NFT day! Buy and trade NFTS, maybe use an NFT to token gate a chat? POAPs!

IPFS and offchain storage - maybe graph?

SVG NFTs!

Mint an NFT - learn whats minting
day 5: DAOs, multsigs, wallet connect

Week 2 - 👩‍🚀 Scripting and Deeper Concepts

day 1: simple script to talk to providers, get balance - RPCs

providers, signers, wallets, basics of ethers.js

formatEther, parseEther!!

running your own local hardhat node
day 2: sending transactions

discussions about: gas prices, mempool, front-running
day 3: interacting with contracts
day 4: parsing blocks to find all transactions from an account (Indexer!)

leads you to graph and/or running your own geth node
day 5: advanced: sign, recover, encrypt, and decrypt

Week 3 - 🧙‍♀️ Smart Contracts / Solidity - Building Dapps - SRE

day 1: Start with Remix and show smart contracts from the browser - learn how to tinker

high level: Massive multiplayer programmable vending machine - remember: unstoppable apps, design incentives

discussions about: solidity syntax, storage vs events, require, mappings, paybable functions

(solidity by example copy pasting like crazy!)
day 2: SpeedRunEthereum.com - Challenge 0 - NFT deployed to testnet
day 3: SpeedRunEthereum.com - Challenge 1 - Staking app
day 4: SpeedRunEthereum.com - Challenge 2 - Token Vendor
day 5: Choose your own adventure: DEX, multisig, or SVG NFT

Week 4 - 🚢 Build Your Own Project

day 1: open/social call to cover:

final concepts and questions

ideation and team forming
day 2-4: checkins, office hours
day 5: show off what you built!

Success tier 1: Get hired as a junior with your Speed Run portfolio... build things and show them off on twitter! (here is a good "next steps" thread: https://twitter.com/austingriffith/status/1478760479275175940?s=20&t=0zGF8M_7Hoeuy-D6LDoFpA)

Success tier 2: Build your own product or start building forkable examples and tutorials for the ecosystem (Go learn something and then leave the camp site better than you found it. Help the next dev learn what you learned, but easier.)