Course Description:
Learn about using Ethereum to develop your public Blockchain solution.
This course is designed for those seeking an in-depth understanding and development experience with the Ethereum Blockchain platform. You’ll gain an overview of Ethereum, smart contracts, and the development language, Solidity. You’ll write smart contracts and build applications that interact with them.
Ethereum’s adaptable feature set which allows you to design decentralized applications for countless applications will be discussed. You will participate in hands-on programming lab sessions so you can develop and advance your skills in Ethereum development.
Course Outline
Blockchain and Smart Contract Basics
- What is Blockchain and how does it work?
- Centralized vs. Decentralized vs. Distributed
- Blockchain vs. Databases
- Bitcoin vs Ethereum
- What are Smart Contracts?
- How are Smart Contracts used?
Smart Contract Programming Basics
- Advantages and Drawbacks of Smart Contracts
- Layer 1 vs. Layer 2
- High-Level Language vs. Low-Level
- Languages in Comparison Solidity, Vyper, others
- Smart Contracts with Solidity
- The Layout of a Solidity File
- LAB TASKS (Lab 1)
- Types of Variables in Solidity
- Function/Variable Visibility
- Smart Contract Constructors
- Setter- and Getter-Functions
Understanding Decentralized Information and Web3
- Blockchain Access structures and Architectures
- Remote Blockchain Nodes vs. Local Blockchain Nodes
- Blockchain Access vs. centralized RESTful API
- Understanding Web3.js API
- Understanding Transactions and Consensus
- Private Keys, Public Keys and Signatures
- Understanding privacy on pubic Blockchains
- Understanding the architecture of KeyStore’s such as MetaMask or MIST
- LAB TASKS (Lab 2 – Ropsten Test-Ether and MetaMask)
- Installing and Configuring MetaMask
- Obtaining Ropsten (or Testnet) Ether
- Tracing Ether through Block-Explorers
- Understanding Infura
Basics of Ethereum and the EVMÂ
- Ethereum Denominations
- Understanding EVM and the ABI Interface
- Calls vs. Transactions
- Concurrency and Events
- Use cases of Events
- LAB TASKS (Lab 3 Web3JS Operations + Lab 4 Events)
- Install and Use Ganache
- Work with Web3.js
- Work with Infura
- Define Events
- Listen and React to Events
Solidity Advanced: Modifiers, Mappings, Structs and Inheritance
- Understanding Functions, Mappings and Structs
- When to use Modifiers
- Libraries vs. Inheritance
- LAB TASKS (Lab 5 Modifiers, 6 Mappings and Structs, Lab 7 Inheritance)
- Understand and use Modifiers
- Add Mappings and Structs
- Use Inheritance to increase auditability
Understanding Deployment and CostsÂ
- Understand Development and Deployment Cycles
- Understanding Solidity Compilation and Deployment
- Gas and Gas-Costs
- Upgradeability and Data Migration Techniques
- Understand the moving Parts: Compiler, Blockchain, API, KeyStore
- LAB TASKS (Lab 8 Deployment, Lab 9 Tie it together)
- Changing from strings to bytes (save gas)
- Deploy using Ropsten Test-Ether
- Understand the difference when using a real Blockchain
- Use a fully functioning distributed Application
Mining, Proof of Work vs. Proof of Authority
- What is Mining in PoW?
- How blocks are generated
- PoW vs. PoA (vs. PoS)
- Understanding Go-Ethereum or Ganache/TestRPC for local development
- Understanding Private Blockchains vs. Public Blockchains
- LAB TASKS (Lab 10 Mining)
- Installing and using Ganache
- Installing and using Go-Ethereum
- Connecting to Ganache/Go-Ethereum from Remix and Web3.js
- Interact with the Blockchain from HTML/JS
Current Problems, Solutions, Outlook, Serenity
- Ethereum Now and Ethereum Future
- Where we are at with Ethereum
- Where Ethereum is heading to
- Serenity
- PoS + PoW to PoS
- Sharding
- Recommended Newsletters/Groups
Working in Teams, Testing and Versioning
- Understanding what Truffle is
- Comparison to Embark
- How Manage Code for Teams
- Understanding Migrations
- Understanding Unit-Testing with Truffle
- LAB TASKS (Lab 11 Truffle setup, Lab 12 Truffle Unit Testing)
- Download and Setup Truffle
- Adapt the standard Truffle-Project
- Write A Unit Test
IPFS and distributed File-Storage
- What is IPFS
- Comparison between IPFS, FileCoin, Swarm, Sia, Storj
- LAB TASK (Lab 13 – IPFS)
- Install and work with IPFS
- Upload and retrieve a fully decentralized file
Bonus Section: Compilation
- LAB TASK (Lab 14 – Compilation)
- Compile a Solidity File with a command-line compiler
Target Audience
Programmers, Developers, and Architects.
Prerequisites
This course is highly technical and requires students to be comfortable with coding. To prepare for the class you should:
- Provide your own computer (Mac/PC/Linux) (labs are hosted in a virtual environment)
- Have basic programming skills in JavaScript / HTML
- Basic knowledge in C ++ / Java, data types (advantageous)
- Basic knowledge with git repositories (advantageous)
Inclusions
With CCS Learning Academy, you’ll receive:
- Instructor-led training
- Training Seminar Student Handbook
- Collaboration with classmates (not currently available for self-paced course)
- Real-world learning activities and scenarios
- Exam scheduling support*
- Enjoy job placement assistance for the first 12 months after course completion.
- This course is eligible for CCS Learning Academy’s Learn and Earn Program: get a tuition fee refund of up to 50% if you are placed in a job through CCS Global Tech’s Placement Division*
- Government and Private pricing available.*
*For more details call:Â 858-208-4141Â or email:Â training@ccslearningacademy.com; sales@ccslearningacademy.com
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