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Smart Contracts

This specialization introduces blockchain, a revolutionary technology that enables peer-to-peer transfer of digital assets without any intermediaries, and is predicted to be just as impactful as the Internet. More specifically, it prepares learners to program on the Ethereum blockchain. The four courses provide learners with (i) an understanding and working knowledge of foundational blockchain concepts, (ii) a skill set for designing and implementing smart contracts, (iii) methods for developing decentralized applications on the blockchain, and (iv) information about the ongoing specific indus

Created by: Bina Ramamurthy

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Overall Score : 88 / 100

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Course Description

This second course of the Blockchain specialization will help you design, code, deploy and execute a smart contract - the computational element of the blockchain technology. Smart contracts allow for implementing user-defined operations of arbitrary complexity that are not possible through plain cryptocurrency protocols. They allow users to implement conditions, rules and policies of the domain applications. Smart contracts are a powerful feature that, when properly designed and coded, can result in autonomous, efficient and transparent systems. You will design and program smart contracts in Solidity language, test and deploy them in the Remix development environment, and invoke them from a simple web interface that Remix provides. This course features best practices for designing solutions with smart contracts using Solidity and Remix IDE.Main concepts are delivered through videos, demos and hands-on exercises.

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Dr. Bina Ramamurthy is a Teaching Professor at University at Buffalo, Computer Science and Engineering Department. She has been involved in the STEM area research, curriculum development, and instruction for the past two decades. She is the Program Director of the SUNY approved certificate program in Data-intensive Computing at University at Buffalo. She is the Director of the Blockchain ThinkLab that has been awarded University at Buffalo's President's Circle Funding. Bina has designed and implemented emerging technology training programs for diverse industries with international participation including manufacturing, automotive and healthcare. She recently received the Best Teaching Faculty of the Year award (2017) from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Buffalo. She has been the Principal Investigator on four National Science Foundation (NSF) grants and a co-investigator in five Innovative Instructional Technology grants (IITG) from SUNY. She has given numerous invited presentations at prominent conferences in the areas of data-intensive and big-data computing. Bina Ramamurthy received the B.E. (Honors) in Electronics and Communication from Madras University, India, the M.S. in Computer Science from Wichita State University, KS, and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University at Buffalo, NY.

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By Shelly H on 15-Nov-19

It feels like the professor is reading from a text book!

By Nitin N on 13-Nov-19

This course teaches you how to write smart contracts on Ethereum Virtual Machine in Solidilty using Remix

By Peter J on 11-Nov-19

Great class but needs to be updated showing a newer version of the remix.

By Aniket D on 3-Nov-19

very resourceful

By Mark H on 31-Oct-19

A great introduction to the fundamentals of smart contracts. The final exercise is challenging yet thoughtful.

By Sahil K on 30-Oct-19

Final project should have more tasks for learning

By JUAN M M G on 20-Sep-19

cool!

By Aniket B on 12-Sep-19

Outdated, code never works... demo screens are super outdated... the transcript has errors, explanation is super high level and instructor skips lots of steps...

By Marco M on 12-Sep-19

I think there should be more exercise.

By JUNAID A on 9-Sep-19

Excellent Course. Resources are very helpful.

By Utkarsh T on 7-Sep-19

The explanation was very good and to the point....

By Ralf B on 5-Sep-19

For further improvement the programming assignments, should be downloadable as text files. As copying from the PDF is tedious and error prone.

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