Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
A Beginner’s Guide to Becoming a Blockchain Developer with Overledger
King's College London and Quant
This course introduced the learner to distributed ledger and blockchain technologies. The theoretical content discussed the main components of these technologies, specifically focusing on the data structures and cryptography used. The course's practical content, utilising Quant's Overledger, demonstrated how learners can build programs to interact with multiple blockchains to read data and write transactions.
3 weeks, 6 hours per week
Luke Riley
Head of Research and Development, Quant Network
King's College London
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding on what is a ledger and what advantages ledgers implemented in a distributed manner have over ledgers implemented in a centralised manner.
- Develop knowledge of the main components of distributed ledger and blockchain technologies.
- Code your first programs utilising blockchain technologies.
- Identify the differences between the two main distributed ledger technology asset tracking models, the first being the unspent transaction ouput (UTXO) model, and the second being the accounts model.
- Investigate the different uses of cryptography in distributed ledger technologies.
- Design blockchain applications that use Quant's Overledger API Gateway.
Syllabus
- Distributed Ledger Technology Components,
- Blockchain,
- Networks,
- Nodes,
- Transactions,
- Related Cryptography.
Issued on 1st March 2022
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