Ethereum and Solidity: The Complete Developer's Guide

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: What is Ethereum?

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Course Resources

Lecture 3: A Short History Lesson

Lecture 4: Link to Original Bitcoin White Paper

Lecture 5: What is Ethereum?

Lecture 6: Interfacing with Ethereum Networks

Lecture 7: Metamask Setup and Configuration

Lecture 8: Ethereum Accounts

Lecture 9: Getting Test Ether to Use in the Course

Lecture 10: What's a Transaction?

Lecture 11: Why'd We Wait?

Lecture 12: A Quick Note About the Next Lecture

Lecture 13: Basic Blockchains

Lecture 14: Block Time

Lecture 15: Smart Contracts

Lecture 16: The Solidity Programming Language

Lecture 17: Updated Remix Instructions for new UI – Do Not Skip

Lecture 18: Our First Contract

Lecture 19: Contract Structure

Lecture 20: Function Declarations

Lecture 21: Deploying Contract in New Remix UI

Lecture 22: Testing with Remix

Lecture 23: Redeploying Contracts

Lecture 24: Behind the Scenes of Deployment

Lecture 25: More on Running Functions Than You Want to Know

Lecture 26: Wei vs Ether

Lecture 27: Gas and Transactions

Lecture 28: Mnemonic Phrases

Lecture 29: We Need More Test Ether!

Lecture 30: Obtaining More Test Ether from Recommended Faucet

Chapter 2: Smart Contracts with Solidity

Lecture 1: Installing Node.js, npm and Git

Lecture 2: Contract Deployment

Lecture 3: Completed Boilerplate

Lecture 4: Project Requirements

Lecture 5: Project File Walkthrough

Lecture 6: Compiling Solidity

Lecture 7: Invalid asm.js or Constructor Deprecation Warning

Lecture 8: The Compile Script

Lecture 9: Testing Architecture

Lecture 10: Breaking Change – Web3 v4 and Ganache

Lecture 11: Installing Modules

Lecture 12: Web3 Versioning

Lecture 13: Web3 Providers

Lecture 14: Testing with Mocha

Lecture 15: Mocha Structure

Lecture 16: Fetching Accounts from Ganache

Lecture 17: Refactor to Async/Await

Lecture 18: Deployment with Web3

Lecture 19: Deployed Inbox Overview

Lecture 20: Asserting Deployment

Lecture 21: Verifying the Initial Message

Lecture 22: Testing Message Updates

Lecture 23: Deployment with Infura

Lecture 24: Infura Signup

Lecture 25: Super Important Note about Seed / Recovery Phrase Security

Lecture 26: Wallet Provider Setup

Lecture 27: Deployment to Testnet

Lecture 28: Observing Deployment on Etherscan

Lecture 29: Remix Permissions and Metamask

Lecture 30: Deployed Contracts in Remix

Lecture 31: Project Review

Lecture 32: Updating Your Inbox Project to Solc v0.8.19

Chapter 3: Advanced Smart Contracts

Lecture 1: The Lottery Contract

Lecture 2: Lottery Design

Lecture 3: Reminder on Updated Remix UI

Lecture 4: Basic Solidity Types

Lecture 5: Starting the Lottery Contract

Lecture 6: The Message Global Variable

Lecture 7: Overview of Arrays

Lecture 8: Overview of Mappings and Structs

Lecture 9: Big Solidity Gotcha

Lecture 10: Entering the Lottery

Lecture 11: Validation with Require Statements

Lecture 12: The Remix Debugger

Lecture 13: Pseudo Random Number Generator

Lecture 14: Selecting a Winner

Lecture 15: Sending Ether from Contracts

Lecture 16: Resetting Contract State

Lecture 17: Requiring Managers

Lecture 18: Function Modifiers

Lecture 19: Returning Players Array

Lecture 20: Contract Review

Lecture 21: Completed Boilerplate – Do Not Skip

Lecture 22: New Test Setup

Lecture 23: Test Project Updates

Lecture 24: Web3 v4 and Ganache Breaking Change Reminder

Lecture 25: Test Helper Review

Lecture 26: Asserting Deployment

Lecture 27: Entering the Lottery

Lecture 28: Asserting Multiple Players

Lecture 29: Try-Catch Assertions

Lecture 30: Testing Function Modifiers

Lecture 31: End to End Test

Chapter 4: Building Interactive Front-Ends

Lecture 1: Ethereum App Architecture

Lecture 2: Boilerplate and React App Updates – Do Not Skip

Lecture 3: Application Overview