NEAR Developer Beginner

NCD Curriculum

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A warm welcome!
NCD certification requirements
Suggested practice

NCD Pre-Requisites

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Pre-requisites
Learning how to learn
Where to get help

Blockchain Basics

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Welcome to web3
Infrastructure landscape: storage, compute, communications
What a blockchain can be used for by you
Hashing (7:35)
Asymmetric-key cryptography (10:59)
What is a distributed system? (7:15)
What is a blockchain? (32:15)
Consensus mechanisms

NEAR Basics

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NEAR in a nutshell (32:17)
Benefits of NEAR
What is a smart contract? (15:16)
Introduction to dApps on NEAR

NEAR Concepts

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Access Keys (23:35)
Accounts
Deployment
Epoch
Local development
Networks
Runtime
Sharding
Specification
Storage
Transactions
Validadors
Wallet

NEAR Architecture

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Custom structs
File structure
Modules
Types of functions

NEAR Tooling

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Means of interacting with a blockchain (by users)
Available toolchain
Clients
CLIs
Generators
SDKs
Standards
Testing
Explorer
Staking
Wallet

Runtime and API

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Accounts data
Blockchain data
Function execution data

NEAR Advanced Tooling

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Indexer
Oracles - usage

NEAR Transactions

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Create a new account
Deploy a contract
Function call
Transfer NEAR
Stake NEAR
Add keys
Delete keys
Delete account

Examples

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Thinking like a blockchain developer (7:29)
Minimal viable example (dApp)
Contract only (backend) (114:24)
Add frontend (38:43)
SDK

NEAR Developer Beginner

NCD Curriculum

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