Cardano Code Camp - Pay To Learn

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Cardano Code Camp - Get Paid To Become A Cardano {Dapp Developer | Solutions Architect }

An Open Source - Community-Contributed Interactive Cardano Blockchain Developer Training Hub, designed as THE go-to resource for aspiring Cardano Developers and accessible worldwide for free. One central (approved) curriculum that all Cardano enthusiasts, meetups, and educators can reference and utilize as their core curriculum.

The curriculum interaction would be a hybrid e-learning format sort of like

• Free Codecamp Style Interactive Training

Combined with

• TeamTreehouse Style “Tracks” and Topics

Earn Free Verified Certifications

Implement Pay To Learn - Create “Cardano Developer Scholarships” via smart contracts, that automatically execute when the aspiring Cardano developer completes their full track. Therefore, we “Pay you to become a Cardano Solutions Architect”. This will help us differentiate ourselves from the competitors, and provide us with a competitive edge. It will also be very useful in creating great marketing campaigns to drive more aspiring Cardano Dapp developers into our ecosystem (potential for collaborating with the team at Ayllu for smart contract development)

Earn {500|700|1000} ADA upon completion of any major Cardano Developer Track (has taken all prerequisite courses, which include, but are not limited to, setting up their own Cardano wallet, interacting with Atala Prism, and partaking in Cardano’s decentralized voting and staking processes). 

We can issue smart contract Cardano developer scholarships (potential for collaborating with the team at Ayllu), where we lock in the ADA into a smart contract for a predefined amount of time, and upon completion of the “Full Track”, the ADA will be released to the wallet of the person who completed the track. If the person has not completed the curriculum within the allotted predefined time (which starts the moment you create your Cardano Code Camp account and should allow plenty of time, it will get resent to the “treasury” to be redistributed to a new aspiring developer who has just created an account. This incentivizes the aspiring developer to stay focused and complete their Cardano Developer Track in a timely manner.

Cardano Developer NFT

We can use the power of NFT to allow all supporters of the ecosystem to show their support by “Sponsoring” future Cardano developers.  By Issuing a limited run of NFTs, designed specifically to fund Cardano Developer Scholarships and help fund the growth of Cardano Code Camp (similar to how the Cardano protocol includes funding for this very Ecosystem, the Catylist fund).

The cost of NFT

Cost to fund 1 Scholarship + 5% transaction Fee going to “Cardano Code Camp” treasury 

Example: 1 500 Ada Scholarship will consist of 500 Ada + 5% fees =  a 525 Ada “Cardano Developer NFT”

What You Actually Get for buying an NFT and sponsoring a future Cardano Developer:

• You will get to know Exactly Who You Helped Become A Cardano Developer - The aspiring Cardano Developer will have set up their Atala Prism id and, and upon completion of their Cardano Developer track, their scholarship will be released and you, as the scholarship gifter and NFT holder, will show EXACTLY who you provided a Cardano Developer education for (Ie, you see their name, personal information, and actual picture). 
• You have the potential to recoup your sponsorship in the form of preferred Defi Rates - If we can get enough support from the DEFI Alliance for this initiative, these NFTs can have community-wide perks like preferred rates when interacting with top Cardano projects within the DEFI Alliance, like Meld, SundaeSwap, Ardana, Genius Yield,  that way, you have a passive way to recoup your initial investment while the growing Cardano ecosystem absorbs the cost over time.

Design of NFTs Should be Community Driven

The NFT designs should be a community collaboration. We have so many amazing Artists and NFT enthusiasts within the Cardano community, this may be a way to put their unique art on display, themed around the future growth of our Cardano ecosystem.

Collaborate with other Catalyst fund 9 Submissions To Create a Solution That Can Meet All Our Intended Goals

Smart Contract Course For New Devs ($20,000) - creating an interactive smart contract course that goes in-depth is a crucial topic to be developed within Cardano Code Camp. $20,000 Funds can be focused on adding an in-dept Smart Developer Track within the Cardano Code Camp curriculum.

Blockchain Course For Dev ($12,000) - creating interactive training can accomplish this goal. FIMI and team can be tasked to build out that Course (it will be part of a larger track), think modular design.

Haskell Course For Developers ($10,000) - Creating an interactive Haskell track could be at the CORE of any Cardano Developer track we create, as it’s the backbone language behind our blockchain.

Learn To Earn For Developers ($27,000) - This component will be backed into Cardano Codecamp. Not sure what the details behind the $27,000 request are but, added to this proposal for sake of collaboration.

Potentially collaborate with Learn To Earn Open Source Tooling to implement learn-to-earn capability for the tracks being built out (if both proposals get funded)

When creating tracked we should “work smart and not hard” by leveraging already well-established training that already exists within our ecosystem (and other ecosystems) including going through the Cardano Starter Kits created by GimbaLabs and Lovelace Academy, going through the online version of Learn You A Haskell For Great Good! And watching the Youtube Haskell Playlists as part of the interactive curriculum for each track.

Why Reference Free Code Camp?

As a marketer, I tend to look for the most successful examples of what we’re trying to do and “reverse” engineer the winning “funnels” and try to make it better in the process. This is no different in my mind, after going through numerous “Developer Training” courses and curriculums and doing the best research I can, I’ve concluded that Free Codecamp has provided the best results for their efforts.

In 2021, freeCodeCamp's entire operating budget was only $754,030

With that budget, their nonprofit was able to deliver more than 2.1 BILLION minutes of instruction - the equivalent of 4,000 years of learning by people around the world. 

Breakdown by year:

| Year  | freeCodeCamp.org | YouTube Channel | Yearly Total  |

+-------+------------------+-----------------+---------------+

| 2015  |       37,367,085 |         246,639 |    37,613,724 |

| 2016  |      189,054,404 |       1,449,703 |   190,504,107 |

| 2017  |      307,802,640 |       8,331,843 |   316,134,483 |

| 2018  |      401,473,441 |      92,197,551 |   493,670,992 |

| 2019  |      347,393,464 |     474,000,000 |   821,393,464 |

| 2020  |      508,054,160 |     764,332,218 | 1,272,386,378 |

| 2021  |      907,059,417 |   1,217,082,060 | 2,124,141,477 |

+-------+------------------+-----------------+---------------+

| Total |    2,698,204,611 |   2,557,640,014 | 5,255,844,625 |

Since 2014, more than 40,000 freeCodeCamp.org graduates have gotten jobs at tech companies

I'd like to see this kind of organic growth happening in our Cardano Developer ecosystem

--- Example Track Curriculum ---

Cardano Solutions Architect

Blockchain Architecture & Design Principles

• What is Blockchain
• Origin of Blockchain
• Working of Blockchain
• Workflow of Blockchain
• Features of Blockchain
• History of Blockchain
• What Blockchain is Not
• What Factors to Consider when Evaluating a Blockchain
• Impact of Blockchain
• Evolution of Blockchain

• Cryptography
• Introduction to Cryptography
• Symmetric Key Cryptography
• Asymmetric Key Cryptography
• RSA Cryptosystem
• Elliptic-Curve Cryptography (ECC)
• Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
• Cryptographic Hashing
• Hashing Algorithms
• Digital Signatures
• Difference Between Hashing and Encryption
• Using Public Keys as Identities

• Bringing It All Together
• Structure of a Block
• Block Header
• Genesis Block
• Merkle Tree
• Transaction Pools
• Candidate Block
• Evolution of Bitcoin Mining
• Blockchain Explorer
• Bitcoin Design

• Bitcoin Design
• Traditional Public Ledger
• Protocol Overview
• Digital Signatures
• Unique ID
• Distributed Ledger
• Traditional Public Ledger vs Distributed Ledger
• Problem with Distributed Ledger
• Hash Value of Ledger
• Ledger Blocks
• Validating Blocks Using Proof of Work

• Consensus Algorithms
• Consensus Mechanism
• Properties of Consensus Mechanism
• Byzantine General’s Problem (BGP)
• Two General’s Problem
• Byzantine Three General’s Problem
• Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT)
• Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT)

• Types of Consensus Algorithms
• Introduction
• Proof of Work (PoW)
• Proof of Stake (PoS)
• Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS)
• Proof of Authority (PoA)
• Proof of Elapsed Time (PoET)
• Proof of Coverage (PoC)
• Proof of History (PoH)

• Underlying Blockchain Technology
• Blockchain as A Store of Value
• Data storage on Blockchain
• Securing Data on Blockchains
• Limitations of Basic Blockchains

• Programmable Blockchains
• Benefits of Programmable Blockchains
• Problems with Programmable Blockchains
• Overcoming Issues of “Smart” Blockchains
• Smart Contracts
• Characteristics of Smart Contracts
• Traditional Contract Vs Smart Contract
• Types of Smart Contracts

• Tokens and Oracles
• Cryptocurrency
• Tokens
• Types of Tokens
• Classification of Tokens
• How Does a Token Gain Value
• Oracles
• Types of Oracles
• Security Issues with Oracles

• DAO
• Introduction to DAOs
• Decentralized Organizations (DO)
• Traditional Organization Vs DAO
• DAo’s Wrokign Mechanism
• Factors For Establishing A DAO
• Phases of A Working DAO
• Advantages and Disadvantages of a DAO
• Successful and Well-Known DAOS
• Describing The DAO Hack
• Security of Smart Contracts vs. Security of Blockchain Protocol

• Future of Blockchain
• Challenges Faced by Blockchain Solutions
• Evolution of Blockchain (Future)
• Sharding
• Sharding in Blockchain
• Sidechains
• Sidechaining
• Interoperability
• Ricardian Contracts
• Feature of Ricardian Contracts
• Deployment of Blockchain (Current and Potential Sectors)

• Business Use Cases
• Decentralized Insurance  - Etherisc
• WaBi - RFID Tagging and tracking authenticity
• Everledger - Diamond tracking
• Decentralized Cloud,storage,hosting - Storj, Golem, Substratum
• Decentralized Social Network - Steem
• Decentralized Market Places - OpenBazaar
• Decentralized Advertising - Basic Attention Token
• Decentralized Transport - Arcade City
• Decentralized Identity - Atala Prism

Introduction to Cardano

• Introduction To Cardano
• What is Cardano?
• History of Cardano
• Design Philosophy of Cardano

• Importance of Cardano
• Advantages of Cardano
• Reasons to Migrate to Cardano
• Organizations Behind Cardano
• Blockchain Structure of Cardano
• The Working of Cardano
• 
  
• Introduction to Cardano Algorithm
• Layers, Epochs, Blocks, Slots
• Composition of Cardano Blockchain
• How blocks are produced
• Block Creation Key Concepts
• Possible Attacks on POS Chains
• History of Ouroboros
• Properties of Ouroboros
• PVSS Mechanism of Slot Leader Selection
• Ouroborus Praos
• Verifiable Random Functions
• Ouroboros Genesis
• Rule of Plentitude
• Ouroboros Hydra - Multi-Party State Channels

• Potential Blockchain Attacks
• 51% Attacks
• Network Spam Attacks
• Sybil Attacks
• Long Range Attacks

• Related CardanoConcepts
• Scalability Factors
• Interoperability
• Sustainability
• Liquid Democracy
• Cardano Certificates
• Registration certificate
• Stake key deregistration
• Stake pool retirement certificates
• Delegation certificate
• Types addresses
• Base addresses
• Reward account addresses
• Enterprise addresses
• Pointer addresses
• Legacy addresses
• Script addresses
• Evolution of Addresses
• Distribution of Staking Rewards

• Introduction to Cardano Wallets
• Yoroi Wallet by Emurgo
• Daedelus Wall by IOHK
• Lace wallet
• Wallet Functionality
• Hierarchical Deterministic Accounts
• Balance & Staking
• Ada Denominations
• Ada Monetary Policy
• EUTXO Model
• Address in Cardano
• Address Format
• Transaction Overview
• Transaction Fees
• Account-Based TX
• Transaction Assurance Levels
• Governance and Updates
• Protocol Updates

Marlowe Concepts

• Introduction To Marlow
• Need For Marlowe
• Marlowe Play
• Applications of Marlowe
• Marlow as a Language
• Guaranteed Termination
• Stopping Error States
• Closer Look into Contract Data Type
• Closer Look at Marlowe Contracts
• Marlowe Run
• Typical Marlowe Use Cases
• Escrow Contract
• Guaranteed Coupon Bond Contract
• Zero Coupon Bond Contract
• Swap Contract
• The Marlowe Model
• Marlowe Concepts
• Contract Execution
• Building A Contract
• Pay
• Refund, If, When
• Let

(Below curriculum outline is not complete)

Haskell

• Introduction to Haskell
• Simple Types
• Simple Functions
• Higher-Order-Functions
• Advanced-Types
• IO
• Monoid
• Functor
• Applicative
• Monad
• Lazy-Evaluation
• Monad-Transformers
• Putting It All Together

Plutus

• TBD
• TBD
• TBD
• Plutus Design Patterns

Cardano Architecting

• White Paper Creation
• Tokenomics
• Smart Contract Design
• Interacting with Decentralized Storage
• Interfacing with Oracle Systems
• Server API’s
• Database Integration
• Atala Prism Integration
• UI/UX Design
• CI / CD Flow and Integration
• Hosting - Heroku

End of Track Final Project

• UI / UX Designer Interaction
• Font End Creation
• Server APIs, Database Integration
• Smart Contract Integration & Deployment
• Unit Testing
• Formal Verification Tools

[IMPACT] Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

Cardano Code Camp will provide our community with a focused combined goal of creating an amazing Developer Experience for aspiring Cardano Developers. Creating it open-sourced and including the ability to help self-fund with the very design, will allow Cardano code camp to grow in it’s reach and ability to create new Cardarno developers.

It will also be a core component (the other being marketing) that will act as the cornerstone of our budding ecosystem. Completing this will also make it much easier to market, attract, and onboard new young and aspiring talent to our ecosystem.

It also allows us to have a central point of education that can be accessed worldwide. Any local and regional Cardano training can leverage and utilize this very curriculum, no need to build their own. No more need to keep recreating slides and writing down talking point notes. Simply have people sign up and get to learn, anywhere in the world. (I see the potential in having the site be multi-lingual down the line.

[IMPACT] What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

If we’re unable to successfully collaborate as a community of teams. These are a lot of components to building this solution. We need to be able to make sure everyone is meeting their Sprint goals and getting the support needed when we run into unexpected problems.

How will we mitigate this risk:

• By Creating a streamlined communication line (Slack/Clickup/Gitub + weekly/bi-weekly Zoom calls)
• By Collaberating our efforts when one of us get stuck with the current task as hand

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

[TBD]

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

Smart Contract Course For New Devs ($20,000) - creating an interactive smart contract course that goes in-depth is a crucial topic to be developed within Cardano Code Camp. $20,000 Funds can be focused to adding an in-dept Smart Developer Track within the Cardano Code Camp curriculum.

Blockchain Course For Dev ($12,000) - creating an interactive training can accomplish this goal. FIMI and team can be tasked to build out that Course (it will be part of a larger track), think modular design.

Haskell Course For Developers ($10,000) - Creating an interactive Haskell track could be at the CORE of any Cardano Developer track we create, as it’s the backbone language behind our blockchain.

Learn To Earn For Developers ($27,000) - This component will be backed into Cardano Codecamp. Not sure what the details behind the $27,000 request are but, added to this proposal for sake of collaboration.

Potentially collaborate with Learn To Earn Open Source Tooling to implement learn-to-earn capability for the tracks being built out (if both proposals get funded) ($10,000)

UI Design & Development - $10,000 - We want to emphasize a great user experience for newcoming developers. This includes actually interacting with the Cardano Code Camp App.

Cardano Code Camp $21,000 - 30 hours a week for 4 months to focus solely on this project and collaborating with all the members above to ensure we all meet and make our deadlines. Duties will include, ideation and curriculum buildout, QA testing, miscellaneous support, Graphic design support, and miscellaneous support to project lead, etc.)

Total Request $110,000 To work towards making Cardano Code Camp a reality. Completely Opensourced, make for the Cardano Developers, by Cardano developers.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

A collaboration of all the people who currently submitted the following Proposals?

Smart Contract Course For New Devs ($20,000) - creating an interactive smart contract course that goes in-depth is a crucial topic to be developed within Cardano Code Camp. $20,000 Funds can be focused to adding an in-dept Smart Developer Track within the Cardano Code Camp curriculum.

Blockchain Course For Dev ($12,000) - creating an interactive training can accomplish this goal. FIMI and team can be tasked to build out that Course (it will be part of a larger track), think modular design.

Haskell Course For Developers ($10,000) - Creating an interactive Haskell track could be at the CORE of any Cardano Developer track we create, as it’s the backbone language behind our blockchain.

Learn To Earn For Developers ($27,000) - This component will be backed into Cardano Codecamp. Not sure what the details behind the $27,00 request are but, added to this proposal for sake of collaboration.

Potentially collaborate with Learn To Earn Open Source Tooling to implement learn-to-earn capability for the tracks being built out (if both proposals get funded)

[FEASIBILITY] If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

Yes, this project will require continuous work. Further funding will most definitely help us complete our overarching goals faster by getting more qualified members of the community to join in the collaborative efforts and get paid accordingly for their contributions.

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or any member of your team working on any other proposals in this Fund9?

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or your team working on any other proposals from previous Funds?

[AUDITABILITY] Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

Each team will have a measurable goals timeline for their efforts, that we will keep updated on a bi-weekly basis. We can utilize GitHub to collaborate our efforts and build out this project in a modular way.

We can also collaborate using Slack and have the Project Managed completely in ClickUp for ease of transparency across teams.

[AUDITABILITY] What does success for this project look like?

A Cardano version of Free Code Camp that pays aspiring developers upon completing a full Cardano Developer Track (extensive training).

A Self-sustained (and hopefully growing) fund for future development and improvements.

[AUDITABILITY] Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

This is a New Proposal

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Rating

SDG goals:

Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

SDG subgoals:

4.4 By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship

Key Performance Indicator (KPI):

4.4.1 Proportion of youth and adults with information and communications technology (ICT) skills, by type of skill

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