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BLOCKGEEKS

LIBRARY OF blockchain courses

This is an online library of blockchain courses ranging from beginner to advanced. Courses are sorted into topics, including:

• Blockchain Basics

• Ethereum Development

• Blockchain Ecosystem

• Community Projects and Code Review

Blockgeeks is a good fit for a wide range of interests, whether a student is interested in deploying their first Ethereup app or is a non-technical student interested in diving into specific business subjects. There are 650+ courses and lessons and nearly 50,000 students.

Subscriptions begin at $29/month to view unlimited content.

ETHEREUM AND SOLIDITY: THE COMPLETE DEVELOPER’S GUIDE

UDemy

This course is intended to introduce developers to building apps with Ethereum, as well general introduction to using blockchain to build software. The course teaches Solidity, Remix IDE, and Mocha, among others. It is split up into the following modules:

• What is Ethereum?

• Smart Contracts with Solidity

• Advanced Smart Contracts

• Building Interactive Front-Ends

• Real Projects with Ethereum

• Ethereum Project Infrastructure

Basic knowledge of JavaScript and NPM is recommended. The course is taught by Stephen Grider and boasts over 30,000 students enrolled. It is a bestseller on Udemy. The course costs $95.

BECOME A BLOCKCHAIN DEVELOPER WITH ETHEREUM AND SOLIDITY

Udemy

This is another courses aimed toward teaching developers how to build applications on Ethereum. This course teaches Solidity and Truffle, among other development tools. It is slightly shorter and slightly less comprehensive than the aforementioned course. It includes the following modules:

• Why the Blockchain?

• Cryptography 101

• Installing the Development Environment (Truffle 4)

• My First Smart Contract: Greetings (Truffle 4)

• How Do You Design and Develop a Decentralized Application?

Basic knowledge of JavaScript is recommended. The course is taught by Sebastien Arbogast and Said Eloudrhiri and enrolled over 13,000 students. The course costs $195.

BLOCKCHAIN AND BITCOIN FUNDAMENTALS

Udemy

This is an introductory course to blockchain as well as Bitcoin. It is less focused on application deployment (as the aforementioned two Udemy courses are), and instead provides a technical and business look into blockchain technology as a whole. It is not intended for developers.

The course is taught by George Levy and boasts over 43,000 students enrolled. The course is a bestseller on Udemy. The course costs $95.

BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGIES: BUSINESS INNOVATION AND APPLICATION

MIT Sloan school of management

This is solely a business-oriented blockchain program. It explores an introduction to technology behind blockchain and its relation to business. The course teaches an economic framework to identify challenges solvable via blockchain technology. The mission for the course is to “examine blockchain technology through an economic lens.” It includes the following modules:

• Bitcoin and the Curse of the Double-Spending Problem

• Costless Verification: Blockchain and the Last Mile Problem

• Bootstrapping Network Effects Through Blockchain and Cryptoeconomics

• Using Tokens to Design New Types of Digital Platforms

The course is led by Christian Catalini, founder of the MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab. It costs $3,500.