The power of blockchain in your hands. Dragonchain Academy launch!

[r8st]

Hi blockchain enthusiasts! This post is for anyone who would like to become a certified blockchain developer, architect, modeler, and/or a resource/advisor for upcoming projects in the space. As of now it is completely free thanks to the Dragonchain Foundation and you'll even earn some DRGN tokens and access to parts of the platform while you learn. The power of blockchain is in your hands.

The first link is an article covering the launch of the Dragonchain Academy, team and advisors, global partnership details with DNES in Vietnam and upcoming courses! No prior blockchain knowledge required. Develop a More Robust BTC Lightning / Ethereum Raiden Network on any platform in Days Using Dragonchain. Interchain with blockchains, set up watcher or publisher smart contracts and much more. Get familiar with blockchain ins-and-outs, the Dragonchain platform and ecosystem, and start building.

Education and sharing of knowledge in this field is paramount to success for all of us involved in blockchain, get involved!

You can get the first couple certifications in a short time, and more courses will be released soon.



https://www.cryptomoonity.com/dragonchain-blockchain-academy/


https://www.academy.dragonchain.org


Yesterday I took the "Dragonchain Certified User" course and exam, which included one section on blockchain in general and one section on elements of the Dragonchain ecosystem specifically. As reward for passing I received continued access to the Academy for 3 months.

I took the "Dragonchain Certified Practitioner" course and exam which included a more in-depth section on the Dragonchain architecture and a section on provisioning DC nodes through the platform console. I received 49 DRGN + access to continue for 6 more months in the Academy program for passing this.

Then I took the "Dragonchain Certified Smart Contract Practitioner" course which is still in beta but I learned how to implement a smart contract in DC (token creation, watcher, publisher, custom contracts).


The plan as I understand is for more advanced courses to roll out, specifically there are supposedly going to be tracks for 'developers' for 'architects' and for 'modelers', though nobody is limited to only one. Right now there is only 200-level course at the highest, but I think it goes to 400 or 500 eventually.





Once certifications are earned, record of them are stored on a dragonchain for future reference by you, dragonchain itself, or any third parties that may be interested in using your help and expertise (provided you offer it). The final touches are being put in place to incorporate Academy certifications into the "Dragonfactor" solution for decentralized identity and personal data that only the user owns and decides who has access to. (see here: https://dragonchain.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360015018492-What-is-Dragon-Factor- and here: https://medium.com/@dragonchain/5-things-you-should-know-about-dragon-factor-974c1c1b9b6a)

Comment if you tried out the first course, let me know what you think.

Any testimonials or comments welcome. If there are any questions I'll do my best to answer. Official Twitter account is https://www.twitter.com/DragonchainAca, I'm not affiliated with Dragonchain but happy to help.

[hodldrgn]

Thanks for making a much better topic, the Dagonchain Academy deserves that.  Awesome to read about your experience with the first courses. Hopefully more people reading up on the Academy will decide to take some time to try it out. Would be great if we can help each other out here, share progress and keep everyone informed about new released courses.

I'm planning to take some courses soon as well. Will post here if I passed the exams. 

In regards to Dragon Factor, a new announcement was made last night. The tweet contains a Medium article and from there you can read up on the documentation.

Tweet URL: https://twitter.com/DragonFactorID/status/1069034470144131072
Medium post: https://medium.com/@dragonchain/5-things-you-should-know-about-dragon-factor-974c1c1b9b6a
Dragon Factor documentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KWQLuQqZp9vz3ZTmloB_4m1k2AqKbhiM/view?usp=sharing

The whole academy is on-chain, on a Dragonchain like you said. ''Academy is a blockchain app running on a Dragonchain L1 business node using serverless technology!"

If people take the courses, they will understand very quickly.  

[r8st]

Thanks for making a much better topic, the Dagonchain Academy deserves that.   Awesome to read about your experience with the first courses. Hopefully more people reading up on the Academy will decide to take some time to try it out. Would be great if we can help each other out here, share progress and keep everyone informed about new released courses.

I'm planning to take some courses soon as well. Will post here if I passed the exams.  

In regards to Dragon Factor, a new announcement was made last night. The tweet contains a Medium article and from there you can read up on the documentation.

Tweet URL: https://twitter.com/DragonFactorID/status/1069034470144131072
Medium post: https://medium.com/@dragonchain/5-things-you-should-know-about-dragon-factor-974c1c1b9b6a
Dragon Factor documentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KWQLuQqZp9vz3ZTmloB_4m1k2AqKbhiM/view?usp=sharing

The whole academy is on-chain, on a Dragonchain like you said. ''Academy is a blockchain app running on a Dragonchain L1 business node using serverless technology!"

If people take the courses, they will understand very quickly.  

I read something in a dragonchain telegram group also about the plan to integrate into Linkedin's certification api, using DragonFactor so as not to expose any personal data other than whether or not a certain Academy certification had been acquired.

Interesting stuff...

If that's the case I may finally create for myself a Linkedin account 

 

[hodldrgn]

Thanks for making a much better topic, the Dagonchain Academy deserves that.   Awesome to read about your experience with the first courses. Hopefully more people reading up on the Academy will decide to take some time to try it out. Would be great if we can help each other out here, share progress and keep everyone informed about new released courses.

I'm planning to take some courses soon as well. Will post here if I passed the exams.  

In regards to Dragon Factor, a new announcement was made last night. The tweet contains a Medium article and from there you can read up on the documentation.

Tweet URL: https://twitter.com/DragonFactorID/status/1069034470144131072
Medium post: https://medium.com/@dragonchain/5-things-you-should-know-about-dragon-factor-974c1c1b9b6a
Dragon Factor documentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KWQLuQqZp9vz3ZTmloB_4m1k2AqKbhiM/view?usp=sharing

The whole academy is on-chain, on a Dragonchain like you said. ''Academy is a blockchain app running on a Dragonchain L1 business node using serverless technology!"

If people take the courses, they will understand very quickly.  

I read something in a dragonchain telegram group also about the plan to integrate into Linkedin's certification api, using DragonFactor so as not to expose any personal data other than whether or not a certain Academy certification had been acquired.

Interesting stuff...

If that's the case I may finally create for myself a Linkedin account 

 

That's great, the more advanced courses are no joke, it's really something valuable to add. Good to see they integrate everything so well together.

[gramkn]

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Hi blockchain enthusiasts! This post is for anyone who would like to become a certified blockchain developer, architect, and/or a resource/advisor for upcoming projects in the space. As of now it is completely free thanks to the Dragonchain Foundation and you'll even earn some DRGN tokens and access to parts of the platform while you learn. The power of blockchain is in your hands.

The first link is an article covering the launch of the Dragonchain Academy, team and advisors, global partnership details with DNES in Vietnam and upcoming courses! No prior blockchain knowledge required. Develop a More Robust BTC Lightning / Ethereum Raiden Network on any platform in Days Using Dragonchain. Interchain with blockchains, set up watcher or publisher smart contracts and much more. Get familiar with blockchain ins-and-outs, the Dragonchain platform and ecosystem, and start building.

Education and sharing of knowledge in this field is paramount to success for all of us involved in blockchain, get involved!

You can get the first couple certifications in a short time, and more courses will be released soon.



https://www.cryptomoonity.com/dragonchain-blockchain-academy/


https://www.academy.dragonchain.org


Yesterday I took the "Dragonchain Certified User" course and exam, which included one section on blockchain in general and one section on elements of the Dragonchain ecosystem specifically. As reward for passing I received continued access to the Academy for 3 months.

I took the "Dragonchain Certified Practitioner" course and exam which included a more in-depth section on the Dragonchain architecture and a section on provisioning DC nodes through the platform console. I received 49 DRGN + access to continue for 6 more months in the Academy program for passing this.

Then I took the "Dragonchain Certified Smart Contract Practitioner" course which is still in beta but I learned how to implement a smart contract in DC (token creation, watcher, publisher, custom contracts).


The plan as I understand is for more advanced courses to roll out, specifically there are supposedly going to be tracks for 'developers' for 'architects' and for 'modelers', though nobody is limited to only one. Right now there is only 200-level course at the highest, but I think it goes to 400 or 500 eventually.


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DtH7uAHU4AAHdyU.jpg:large


Once certifications are earned, record of them are stored on a dragonchain for future reference by you, dragonchain itself, or any third parties that may be interested in using your help and expertise (provided you offer it). The final touches are being put in place to incorporate Academy certifications into the "Dragonfactor" solution for decentralized identity and personal data that only the user owns and decides who has access to. (see here: https://dragonchain.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360015018492-What-is-Dragon-Factor- and here: https://medium.com/@dragonchain/5-things-you-should-know-about-dragon-factor-974c1c1b9b6a)

Comment if you tried out the first course, let me know what you think.

Any testimonials or comments welcome. If there are any questions I'll do my best to answer. Official Twitter account is https://www.twitter.com/DragonchainAca, I'm not affiliated with Dragonchain but happy to help.




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I completed all of the courses available. Overall I thought it was great. I noticed a couple of typos in the coursework, nothing too bad. At the end of the smart contract practitioner course, the material started getting pretty advanced. I believe that material moved a bit too fast, all of the sudden we were building node.js script files. It will be interesting to see how they present more advanced materials, I can't imagine going much deeper without some basic programming knowledge as a pre-requisite.

[r8st]

I completed all of the courses available. Overall I thought it was great. I noticed a couple of typos in the coursework, nothing too bad. At the end of the smart contract practitioner course, the material started getting pretty advanced. I believe that material moved a bit too fast, all of the sudden we were building node.js script files. It will be interesting to see how they present more advanced materials, I can't imagine going much deeper without some basic programming knowledge as a pre-requisite.

Awesome! Good for you. I noticed some typos as well and have forwarded what I found to the team, so hopefully that gets smoothed out soon. I know some others sent feedback as well. Overall I agree it is a pretty solid collection of learning material.

From what I've heard we've been given so far the foundation of material... from here it seems like it will branch off in slightly differing directions based on interest/experience. So yes I think a 300-level course for developers with coding experience and knowledge is in the works, but this is far from the only audience being targeted. The hope is for someone beginning with zero knowledge of blockchain or computer science to be able to progress through a track given enough effort/dedication. For example, I think three of the independent focus areas are for 'developers', 'architects', and 'modelers'. I'd expect a decent amount of prerequisite coding knowledge needed to get through the developer material, and more abstract/concept-based knowledge necessary for the architect track. I'm hoping reference links will continue to be provided throughout the courses so that people are able to dive deeper into any concepts they are interested in but may not yet have adequate understanding of.

I took a couple courses in college for programming (Java), but haven't really done much there since. A few months ago I began trying to learn some Python, and found some great resources to help with that (https://github.com/Akuli/python-tutorial , also there are some really cool games to aid in learning online). I don't consider myself a developer by any means, I think right now I'd probably fit the 'Architect' and maybe 'Modeling' tracks more closely, but I think I will give the developer course a try when I have acquired some more of the prerequisite background.