| | Anonymous | B9lab Online Summer School - A very complete online summer school that cover all the basics of blockchain technology, specifically for the Ethereum platform, all the way up to achieving a full Ethereum Developer Certification. The course is clear and well organized, with a lot of helpful material and tutorial. A lot of stuff to read (good!), but the course could use a few more multimedia resources. Highly recommended if you can afford the price! |
| | Adel Rustum | The journey is 9 weeks of hard work; the destination is B9lab's Ethereum Developer certificate.
The team at B9lab did a great job creating a course that covers every aspect of the Ethereum blockchain whether it’s about its origin and theory, Solidity programming, or the required tools to build a DAPP, during the course you get challenged to find solutions to problems with increased difficulty as you progress through it with the constant support of your tutors and classmates by communicating through the dedicated Slack channel, the tutors live in different parts of the world which insures that you get answers to your questions in a prompt manner no matter what's your timezone.
The certification exam makes sure that only the students that invested a serious amount of time in studying the course material, solving tutors' challenges, and working on the mini-DAPP projects will get certified.
The certificate gives the student enough confidence to immediately start looking for a job as a blockchain developer, and it also gives the future employer the confidence in the candidate's skills, because they know that B9lab awards their certificates only to the best of their students! |
| | Alec Koumjian | The instructors are extremely competent and knowledgeable about blockchain and Ethereum particulars. The course does a great job walking you through the Ethereum stack from bytecode to full stack dApp development. The lessons also do a good job of honing in on some opinionated fundamentals for how to approach blockchain development. After learning some fundamentals and working with a bunch of different tooling options, you move on to building some projects. The instructors will give you detailed feedback on your code commits and work with you as you update the project based on their feedback.
One area of improvement is that the openEdx based course pages need some really good editing. Currently it is a bit repetitive in some places and it lacks a strong narrative. Also, although solidity and the landscape are changing very rapidly, the code examples and package versions need a good update to reflect the current state of the field. Constructors, error emssages, and subtle differences in interacting with tools like the truffle framework have been a bit out of date. Also, I think the emphasis on interacting with the Ropsten testnet was set up rather poorly and due to the network itself being so unreliable, I found the first few weeks a little frustrating. For a group like this, I would really expect them to maintain their own testnet for all their classes. |
