Incentivized Developer Training

We plan to include Cardano Developer lessons in BDU L-EARN, our learn and earn program. 

https://github.com/BlockDevsUnited/learn-and-earn

We already have a vibrant community of teachers and students (mostly Venezuelan), highly motivated to learn and earn. Our main limiter is funding for the rewards.  

Planned Developer Lessons, in English and Spanish

We use a combination of existing and original tutorials, to fill in necessary gaps without reinventing the wheel. All lessons are open source. 

- Cardano node setup and operation

- Stake pools and stake delegation

- Cardano keys and addresses

- How Ouroboros works

- Writing Marlowe contracts

- Deploying Native Tokens

- More 

P2P learning

In our system, developers who have passed a lesson are encouraged to go on and teach others that material. This method is time and cost efficient, and research shows that teachers who are close to the knowledge level of the student, often outperform teachers who are domain experts.

Student Projects

In addition to theoretical lessons, there are also practical ones, which require students to create Cardano projects in github repositories, and showcase working code.   

Developer Pathway

In addition to offering standalone lessons, we will also create a developer pathway, with the end goal of helping our students get jobs as Developers in the Cardano ecosystem. Students are incentivized along the entire pathway. 

At the end of the pathway, developers will be required to create a capstone project. This is aimed at showcasing their skills, as well as creating more valuable open source code for the Cardano Ecosystem.

Testing & Rewarding

Every lesson contains a quiz, or a lab, in which the student must prove her knowledge in order to earn.  In-demand skills will be rewarded the highest.  Quizzes test theoretical knowledge, while labs test practical know-how. 

Currently tests are performed manually by a trusted teacher from our community. BWe use a sybil resistance strategy where students have to verify with BrightID (https://www.brightid.org/) before receiving rewards. 

We believe that learn and earn incentives provide strong motivation for many to grind through the difficult to learn code required to create Cardano Apps. 

Vision

The goal is to find and train talented individuals, especially in economically disadvantaged situations,  who would normally not have the time or resources to pour into learning Cardano Development.  We wish to bring them up to a skill level where they can then start earning money as a Cardano developer!

If you like this proposal, consider supporting us in any way. We welcome your feedback and are open to suggestions.

Budget

Rewards for Learners         $18000

Content Creation                $7000

Teachers and Graders        $6000

Marketing                            $2000

Total: $33,000

Milestones

1 Month

- 3000

3 Months

- 1000 lessons completed

6 Months