Blockchain Programming

Blockchain Programming, available at $94.99, has an average rating of 4.4, with 83 lectures, 5 quizzes, based on 547 reviews, and has 5719 subscribers.

You will learn about Build a cryptocoin from scratch using Python Digitally sign messages and verify signatures Design and build a tamper-proof blockchain to store any kind of data Secure your blockchain with a proof-of-work requirement Open sockets to communicate transactions and block with peers Build a wallet and miner for your cryptocoin This course is ideal for individuals who are Programmers of all skill levels who want to learn cryptocurrencies from the inside or Crypto-junkies who want to learn some programming It is particularly useful for Programmers of all skill levels who want to learn cryptocurrencies from the inside or Crypto-junkies who want to learn some programming.

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Summary

Title: Blockchain Programming

Price: $94.99

Average Rating: 4.4

Number of Lectures: 83

Number of Quizzes: 5

Number of Published Lectures: 83

Number of Published Quizzes: 5

Number of Curriculum Items: 89

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 89

Original Price: $119.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Build a cryptocoin from scratch using Python

Digitally sign messages and verify signatures

Design and build a tamper-proof blockchain to store any kind of data

Secure your blockchain with a proof-of-work requirement

Open sockets to communicate transactions and block with peers

Build a wallet and miner for your cryptocoin

Who Should Attend

Programmers of all skill levels who want to learn cryptocurrencies from the inside

Crypto-junkies who want to learn some programming

Target Audiences

Programmers of all skill levels who want to learn cryptocurrencies from the inside

Crypto-junkies who want to learn some programming

You’ll learn the ins and outs of blockchain like only a blockchain programmer knows. Using only a few Python libraries, we’ll build a cryptocurrency from the ground up. Even if you have very little programming experience we can help you through it!

You’ll learn about digital signatures, hashing and proof-of-work mining. We’ll design and build a scheme for decentralized consensus including communicating over TCP/IP sockets. Bring your basic knowledge of Python, and you’ll emerge on the other side with a grasp of cryptocurrencies better than 99% of your peers and with a working prototype you can build on. 

You’ll make smarter cryptocurrency investment decisions, launch a career in blockchain programming or just be the smartest crypto-junkie in the room. Clear your weekend, click the enroll button and let’s go!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction and Python Basics

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Python Datatypes: Lists, Dictionaries and Tuples

Lecture 3: Python Basics: Functions, Loops, If Statements and Modules

Lecture 4: Wheres the blockchain!?

Lecture 5: Python Basics: Classes

Lecture 6: Python Basics: Inheritance

Lecture 7: Python Basics: Catching Errors with Try/Except

Chapter 2: Digital Signatures

Lecture 1: Asymmetric Encryption

Lecture 2: Digital Signatures

Lecture 3: Signatures for Cryptocurrencies

Lecture 4: Test-driven Development

Lecture 5: Installing modules with pip

Lecture 6: Assignment: Sign and verify

Lecture 7: Solution: Part 1

Lecture 8: Solution: Part 2

Lecture 9: Strings or Bytes

Chapter 3: Block Chain

Lecture 1: Hash functions

Lecture 2: Computing hash functions with Python

Lecture 3: Block Chains

Lecture 4: Assignment: Blockchain for general data

Lecture 5: Solution

Chapter 4: Transactions

Lecture 1: Transactions

Lecture 2: Multiple output addresses

Lecture 3: Multi-signature transactions

Lecture 4: Assignment: Transaction class Part 1

Lecture 5: Assignment: Transaction class Part 2

Lecture 6: Solution: Part 1

Lecture 7: Solution: Part 2

Chapter 5: Blockchain-based transaction ledger

Lecture 1: Securing a public transactions ledger

Lecture 2: Review of previous work

Lecture 3: Assignment 1: Save and restore with pickle

Lecture 4: Assignment 1: Solution

Lecture 5: Assignment 2: The TxBlock class

Lecture 6: Assignment 2: Solution

Chapter 6: Mining and Proof-of-Work

Lecture 1: Decentralization

Lecture 2: The Dark Side of Decentralization

Lecture 3: Proof-of-Work

Lecture 4: Nonces

Lecture 5: Assignment 1: Mining rewards

Lecture 6: Assignment 1: Solution

Lecture 7: Assignment 2: Nonce requirement

Lecture 8: Additional Python tips and tricks

Lecture 9: Assignment 2: Solution

Chapter 7: Communicating with Peers

Lecture 1: Dragons!

Lecture 2: Internet basics

Lecture 3: Client and Server

Lecture 4: Building a server

Lecture 5: Building a client

Lecture 6: Non-blocking server

Lecture 7: Client-server code along

Lecture 8: Pickling data for communication

Lecture 9: Finishing up client-server

Lecture 10: Miner and Wallet

Lecture 11: Building a socket communication utility

Lecture 12: Assignment: Build a Miner

Lecture 13: Solution

Lecture 14: Placing the new block

Chapter 8: Multi-threading

Lecture 1: Basic Threading

Lecture 2: Assignment 1: Test Miner Using Threads

Lecture 3: Assignment 1: Solution

Lecture 4: Assignment 2: Wallet client and server

Lecture 5: Assignment 2: Solution

Lecture 6: Coding Best Practices

Lecture 7: Assignment 3: Saving and Restoring Keys

Lecture 8: Assignment 3: Solution

Lecture 9: Save and Restore Blocks and Transactions

Chapter 9: Additional security concerns

Lecture 1: Potpourri

Lecture 2: Assignment 1: Load and save states

Lecture 3: Assignment 1: Solution

Lecture 4: Assignment 2: Limit block size

Lecture 5: Assignment 2: Solution

Lecture 6: Assignment 3: Checking account balances

Lecture 7: Assignment 3: Solution

Lecture 8: Assignment 4: Blockchain branching

Lecture 9: Assignment 4: Solution

Lecture 10: Assignment 5: Replay Attacks

Lecture 11: Assignment 5: Solution

Lecture 12: Approaches to replay attacks

Lecture 13: Assignment 6: Multiple miners

Lecture 14: Assignment 6: Solution

Lecture 15: Hardness and emission rate

Lecture 16: Cryptocoin economics: Supply-side edition

Lecture 17: Cryptocoin economics: Demand-side edition

Instructors

Levi Barnes
High Performance Programmer

NerdBarn Learning
Technical Instruction

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 14 votes

2 stars: 14 votes

3 stars: 72 votes

4 stars: 183 votes

5 stars: 264 votes

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