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Free 16-Hour Course

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Learn Solidity, Blockchain, and Smart Contracts in a Free 16-Hour Course

Blockchain engineers are in extreme demand. Almost every day they are building billion dollar applications.

We just released a full course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel that will teach you all about Solidity, the blockchain, and smart contracts. Solidity is an object-oriented programming language for writing smart contracts.

This course will give you a full introduction into all of the core concepts in blockchain, smart contracts, solidity, NFTs/ERC721s, ERC20s, Coding Decentralized Finance (DeFi), python and solidity, Chainlink, Ethereum, upgradable smart contracts, and full stack blockchain development.

Here are all the sections covered in this comprehensive course:

Lesson 0: Welcome To Blockchain

  • What is a Blockchain?
  • Making Your First Transaction
  • How Do Blockchains Work?
  • Consensus
  • The Future
  • Miscellaneous

Lesson 1: Welcome to Remix! Simple Storage

  • Everything in this section can be read about in the Solidity Documentation
  • Remix
  • Basic Solidity
  • Deploying to a “Live” network

Lesson 2: Storage Factory

  • Inheritance, Factory Pattern, and Interacting with External Contracts
  • Lesson 3: Fund Me
  • Payable, msg.sender, msg.value, Units of Measure
  • Chainlink Oracles
  • Importing from NPM and Advanced Solidity

Lesson 4: Web3.py Simple Storage

  • Installing VSCode, Python, and Web3
  • Our First Python Script with Web3.py – Deploying a Contract
  • Interacting with Our Contract in Python & Web3.py

Lesson 5: Brownie Simple Storage

  • Brownie Introduction
  • Installing Brownie
  • Brownie Simple Storage Project
  • Testing Basics

Lesson 6: Brownie Fund Me

  • Introduction
  • Dependencies, Deploying, and Networks
  • Funding and Withdrawing Python Scripts
  • Testing across networks
  • Git

Lesson 7: SmartContract Lottery

  • Introduction
  • Lottery.sol
  • Testing Lottery.sol
  • Lottery.sol Testnet Deployment
  • Brownie Mixes
  • Lesson 9: ERC20s, EIPs, and Token Standards
  • Lesson 10: Defi & Aave
  • Defi Intro
  • Aave UI
  • Programmatic Interactions with Aave
  • Testing

Lesson 11: NFTs

  • Non-Technical Explainer
  • Simple NFT
  • SimpleCollectible Testing
  • Advanced NFT
  • Advanced deploy_and_create
  • Creating Metadata & IPFS

Lesson 12: Upgrades

  • Introduction to upgrading smart contracts
  • Upgrades-mix and code
  • Testing Upgrades
  • Upgrades on a testnet

Bonus Lesson 13: Full Stack Defi

  • Defi Stake Yield Brownie Scripts & Tests
  • Testing our Defi Stake Yield Brownie Dapp
  • Front End / Full Stack

Closing and Summary

  • Security
  • Where do I go now?
  • Learning More
  • Community
  • Hackathons

Watch the full course below or on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel (16-hour watch).