BEN Learn Cardano Developer Course

We propose creating a Cardano Development Course on our new BEN Learn Platform. https://learn.blockchainedu.org/all-courses.  The platform is quickly growing and hosts students from colleges and Universities around the world. 

The Aim of the Cardano Development Course is to provide a valuable resource for students to learn Cardano Development. 

Not only is the course free, but you can get paid to take it! To quickly grow participation we want to reward students in ADA for passing each section, and completing the course. Rewards will diminish as participation increases. 

Curriculum

The curriculum will be open source and include 

- Cardano UTXO transaction programming

- Setting up Cardano nodes and stake pools 

- Working with native tokens

- Deploying Cardano smart contracts

- Creating dApps

- Capstone Project 

We want to pull students in from across BEN to learn Cardano development. 

We intend on seeking advice and support from our network of University Professors and education professionals from whom we can seek advice. 

Throughout the course, students will be submitting  code on github for assignments. The Capstone project should provide many interesting open source projects for the Cardano community.

Certification

A certification will be given at the end of the course, with the aim of helping students gain developer jobs. 

Budget Breakdown

Curriculum development.                  $20000

Learning Incentives                           $10000

Teachers                                            $10000

Testing and Certification                  $7500

Marketing                                          $3000

Total                                                   $50500

Success Criteria

1 month

- Complete Course Curriculum

- Complete Certification methods

3 months

- Polish Course Curriculum

- Create 100 new Cardano Developers (Course Certified)

6 months

- Create 200 new Cardano Developers

- Either Secure $100k extra funding, OR start charging in order to scale

12 months

- Create 600 new Cardano Developers

- Get jobs for 100+ students