Key points:

• For Web2 developers who want to find their first Web3 job
• 6 Month program
  • 3 month bootcamp
  • • an extra 3 month coaching to help you find your job
• Part-time, requires a few hours of work per week
• Pre-recorded videos to watch, one call per week for support
• Focuses on Ethereum, Solidity
• Up-to-date with the latest tech (Solidity 0.8, Hardhat, Ethers..)
• 8 projects completed by the end of the bootcamp

Bootcamp (3 month)

• Week #1: Blockchain & Ethereum
  • Intro to Blockchain
  • Intro to Ethereum
  • Cryptographic hashes
  • Addresses
  • Wallets
  • Smart contracts
  • Transactions
  • Gas
  • Ethereum accounts: EOA vs contracts
  • Ethereum networks: Local, public testnets & mainnet
  • Q&A
• Week #2: Solidity
  • Intro to Remix
  • Structure of a smart contract
  • Built-in variables
  • Declaring variables
  • Declaring functions
  • Constructor
  • Control structures: if, while, etc..
  • Arrays
  • Mappings
  • Structs
  • Memory locations & scope
  • Events
  • Interacting between contracts
  • Transferring Ether
  • Dealing with errors(require, throw...)
  • Inheritance
  • Updates in Solidity 0.7 / 0.8
  • Deploying & interacting with a smart contract in Remix
  • Project: Multi-sig wallet
  • Exercise 1: Implement a function with access control
  • Exercise 2: Ether Wallet
  • Exercise 3: Manipulate array CRUD
  • Exercise 4: Manipulate mapping CRUD
  • More exercises: 30 more smart contracts for extra practice
  • Q&A
• Week #3: Testing Solidity smart contracts
  • Pre-requisites: NodeJS & NPM
  • Introduction to Hardhat
  • Introduction to Ethers
  • Testing a smart contract with Hardhat & Ethers
  • The arrange, act, assert pattern
  • Using OpenZeppelin test helper
  • Testing the value of a variable
  • Testing Ether transfers
  • Testing time
  • Testing with mainnet state
  • Refactoring your tests
  • Project: Test Multi-sig wallet
  • Exercises: Test these 30 smart contracts for extra practice
  • Q&A
• Week #4: Decentralized application 1: DAO
  • Intro to Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO)
  • Architecture of a decentralized application
  • Introduction to Metamask
  • Smart contract
  • Tests
  • Frontend
  • Q&A
• Week #5: Decentralized application 2: Decentralized Ebay
  • Smart contract
  • Tests
  • Frontend
  • More exercises: 30 more Decentralized applications for extra practice
• Week #6: Specialization 1 - Security & Advanced Solidity
  • Dealing with different smart contract versions
  • Smart contract updates
  • Assembly
  • Security patterns
  • Security tools
  • Security audits
  • Continuous integrations for smart contracts
  • Exercise 1: Fix this smart contract
  • Exercise 2: Do this smart contract audit
  • Q&A
• Week #7: Specialization 2 - DeFi
  • Intro to DeFi
  • DeFi building blocks
  • Flashloans
  • ERC20
  • Project: Decentralized exchange
  • Q&A
• Week #8: Specialization 3 - NFT
  • Intro to NFT
  • ERC721
  • Minting NFTs
  • Managing Metadata
  • Project: NFT Marketplace
  • Q&A
• Week #9: Specialization 4 - Frontend for Web3
  • Loading cycle of Metamask
  • Best practice for Dapps in the frontend
  • Handling network changes
  • Giving feedback to user before and after a transaction
  • Dealing with events in the frontend
  • useWeb3 library
  • WalletConnect library
  • Other frontend libraries
  • Rapid frontend development with these Blockchain APIs
  • Project: implement the Uniswap trading token swap widget
  • Q&A
• Week #10 & #11: Final project
  • Each student will work on his/her own Web3 project
  • With the guidance of the instructor
  • So that each student can have a UNIQUE advanced project for his/her portfolio
• Week #12: Certification
  • Based on quiz
  • And on student final project