Highlights of our Resources

<aside> 📚 Some areas we’ve researched and focused on are:

• Cohesiveness of content: Lessons are meaningful from beginning to end. Learners aren’t harshly overloaded with content and fundamentals. Our learning tracks have a good sense of challenge, reward and acquisition of skills. The approach used is to facilitate this is expose → introduce → teach.
• Inclusivity of different styles of learners: We realised that some learners prefer to dive right into projects whereas others like to go through fundamental lessons first. A feature of this that we’ve added is two way linking where the fundamental lessons link to a project lesson where they are applied and vice versa.
• Grade of language: In all our project resources, every concept has a working explanation using learner-friendly language. It is similar to the popular Reddit format Explain Like I’m 5 (ELI5) and assumptions of prior knowledge are kept to a minimum.
• Technical Deep Dives: For the curious learners that would like to learn a concept in-depth, we have included pop-ups (side-drawers). This allows interested learners to get deeper knowledge within the flow of a lesson without disrupting it for anyone content with a working overview of a concept.
• Ability to contribute to real-world projects: Our resources aim to empower developers with the knowledge that can be implemented in the real world with but little additional learning/ adaptation. </aside>

Skills Acquired from Lessons

• Lesson 1: Introduction to Smart Contract Development using Remix IDE
  • Understanding what Smart Contracts are
  • Using Remix IDE for quick development, testing and deployment
  • Basic Building Blocks required for working with Smart Contracts
    • Variables and Types
    • Functions
    • Events
• Lesson 2: Understanding Dev Tooling required for Smart Contract Development by building a basic NFT
  • Shifting to dedicated development environment (eg. Remix → VSCode)
  • Using package managers and packages
  • Working with Hardhat
    • Using a local chain for testing
    • Configuring hardhat for working with multiple chains
    • Deploy scripts for smart contract
  • Using OpenZeppelin standards
    • ERC721
    • ERC71 JSON standard (metadata standards)
  • Decentralised Storage
    • IPFS
      • Pinata
  • Using faucets to get test tokens
    • test ETH
  • Using RPC Node Provider
    • Interacting with blockchain
  • Public and private keys
    • Responsibilities and safety
  • Working with testnets
  • Using block explorers
    • Check transaction details
• Lesson 3: Gas Optimisations
• Lesson 4: Test Driven Development
  • Understanding the importance of test driven development
  • Writing tests based on desired outcome instead of the process
  • Testing various cases (eg edge cases)
  • Writing code based on expected outcome of tests
• Lesson 5: Interacting with UI
  • Understanding window.ethereum object
  • Working with WAGMI hooks
    • Connecting to smart contract
    • Interacting with Smart Contract
      • Reading and writing data
      • Calling functions
  • Using RainbowKit Wallet Provider

MVP

The MVP for School of Code consists of the following:

• First two lessons from the first Projects track
• Fundamentals lessons of concepts used in the aforementioned project lessons
• A front end that has a landing page, an index page and the lessons pages

Links to other Resources

• Frontend Design