COURSE DESCRIPTION

This first course of the Blockchain Developer program provides a broad overview of the essential concepts of blockchain technology – by initially exploring the Bitcoin protocol followed by the Ethereum protocol – to lay the foundation necessary for developing applications and programming. This course enables you to explain basic components of a blockchain, its operations, underlying algorithms, and essentials of trust.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Understand the history, main concepts, architecture and the main principles of Blockchain technology
• Understand the definitions, architecture and principles of Ethereum blockchain
• Understand the security mechanism, transaction validation, block validation, and immutability of data in blockchain
• Understand the concept of trust, the rules and mechanism to build consensus in blockchain
• Understand, set up and practice with Ethereum blockchain