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Class Schedule & Course Curriculum Details
Live Class Meeting Schedule
BUILDING A CLASS All classes will be scheduled on Monday from 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm in ASB 321. Please call Donna Schweizer, Program Coordinator at 201.684.7370 if interested or sign up for an info session.
Course Curriculum Details
TOPIC 1 – Introduction
- History of the Blockchain
- Introduction to technology of Blockchain
- Define Peer to Peer systems, the block structure in the Blockchain
- What is Dynamic Shared Ledger?
- Define the Public Key and the Private Key
- Dry run a typical transaction
TOPIC 2 – Data Protection in Blockchain
- Basic concept of Hashing
- Layers in Blockchain: Data Layer, Network Layer, Consensus Layer
- Create a Public Private Key in a Wallet
- Interact with a Blockchain test network
- Visualize a Blockchain network
- The distributed security mechanism in a Blockchain
TOPIC 3 – Consensus Mechanism in Blockchain
- Synchronization in Distributed Systems
- History of Consensus
- Basic understanding of Consensus
- Discussion of the Byzantine General problem
- Impact of consensus mechanisms on Blockchain
- Exploring the consensus in public Blockchain
- Designing your own consensus problem for a business problem
TOPIC 4 – Introduction to Smart Contracts
- Introduction to state machines
- Transition states in a state machine
- Building your own state machine
- Smart contracts as a state machine
- Concept of an oracle
- Defining your own smart contract
- Using machine learning in Smart contracts
TOPIC 5 – Distributed Applications (DApp) and types of Blockchain
- Introduction to the different types of Blockchain
- Introduction to Distributed Apps
- Linking Business need to Blockchain type
- Understanding of concepts on forking in Blockchain
- Mechanisms in DApps: security and Smart Contracts
- Exploring some commercial DApps
TOPIC 6 – Building a Blockchain Solution: Challenges
- Blockchain solution mobilization in Private Networks and Public Networks
- Licensing and Cryptocurrency key concepts
- Requirements for Blockchain application development
- Processes for deploying a Blockchain solution
- Challenges for Blockchain solution deploy
TOPIC 7 – Introduction to Bitcoin
- History of Bitcoin
- Bitcoin current day applications
- Transaction and consensus in Bitcoin
- Hard forks in Bitcoin
- Studying the transactions of Bitcoin
- Future applications on Bitcoin
TOPIC 8 – Commercial Implementation of Blockchain
- Study a commercial application in public network
- Study a commercial application in private network
- Analyze a business problem
- Develop a feasibility analysis for Blockchain transition
- Identify the roadblocks to transition
- Present the basic smart contracts and consensus mechanism
- Present basic governance mechanism (if private)
- Present basic crypto model (if public)
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