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Building Decentralized Applications for Ethereum: An Introduction to dApps

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Overview/Description

This 8-video course offers an introduction to Ethereum, an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform and operating system featuring smart contract functionality. Course prerequisites are a fundamental understanding of blockchain technology, smart contracts, and prior coding experience. The course uses a retail supply chain as a real-world example to demonstrate how to build and use a blockchain in Ethereum. Learn about the Truffle Suite, used to develop both smart contracts and a UI (user interface). Learn to use a front-end application to construct a decentralized app (dApp) to write data to a blockchain. Next, explore the concept of Ethereum tokens, which can be set as a bespoke currency that can be exchanged for goods and services. Explore how Total Supply is used in tokens to ensure that they are compliant with Ethereum’s ERC-20. By the end of this course, you will have laid a firm foundation for the development of decentralized applications for the Ethereum network.

Expected Duration (hours)
1.0

Lesson Objectives

Building Decentralized Applications for Ethereum: An Introduction to dApps

identify the subject areas covered in this course

identify the shortcomings of using tools like relational databases to record transactions

recognize how blockchains secure the data recorded on them and how smart contracts are used to record transactions

define a decentralized app, both in general terms and in the context of Ethereum

describe the steps involved in developing dApps and recognize how the Truffle suite can simplify many of these tasks

identify the reasons for using a customized token and how this applies to Ethereum dApps

list the requirements for a bespoke token definition in order to comply with the ERC-20 token standard

define a dApp and identify functions in the ERC-20 token standard

Course Number:
it_bcbdaedj_01_enus

Expertise Level
Intermediate