Quote from: r8st on December 01, 2018, 06:39:05 PM

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Hi blockchain enthusiasts! This post is for anyone who would like to become a certified blockchain developer, architect, and/or a resource/advisor for upcoming projects in the space. As of now it is completely free thanks to the Dragonchain Foundation and you'll even earn some DRGN tokens and access to parts of the platform while you learn. The power of blockchain is in your hands.

The first link is an article covering the launch of the Dragonchain Academy, team and advisors, global partnership details with DNES in Vietnam and upcoming courses! No prior blockchain knowledge required. Develop a More Robust BTC Lightning / Ethereum Raiden Network on any platform in Days Using Dragonchain. Interchain with blockchains, set up watcher or publisher smart contracts and much more. Get familiar with blockchain ins-and-outs, the Dragonchain platform and ecosystem, and start building.

Education and sharing of knowledge in this field is paramount to success for all of us involved in blockchain, get involved!

You can get the first couple certifications in a short time, and more courses will be released soon.

https://www.cryptomoonity.com/dragonchain-blockchain-academy/

https://www.academy.dragonchain.org

Yesterday I took the "Dragonchain Certified User" course and exam, which included one section on blockchain in general and one section on elements of the Dragonchain ecosystem specifically. As reward for passing I received continued access to the Academy for 3 months.

I took the "Dragonchain Certified Practitioner" course and exam which included a more in-depth section on the Dragonchain architecture and a section on provisioning DC nodes through the platform console. I received 49 DRGN + access to continue for 6 more months in the Academy program for passing this.

Then I took the "Dragonchain Certified Smart Contract Practitioner" course which is still in beta but I learned how to implement a smart contract in DC (token creation, watcher, publisher, custom contracts).

The plan as I understand is for more advanced courses to roll out, specifically there are supposedly going to be tracks for 'developers' for 'architects' and for 'modelers', though nobody is limited to only one. Right now there is only 200-level course at the highest, but I think it goes to 400 or 500 eventually.

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Once certifications are earned, record of them are stored on a dragonchain for future reference by you, dragonchain itself, or any third parties that may be interested in using your help and expertise (provided you offer it). The final touches are being put in place to incorporate Academy certifications into the "Dragonfactor" solution for decentralized identity and personal data that only the user owns and decides who has access to. (see here: https://dragonchain.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360015018492-What-is-Dragon-Factor- and here: https://medium.com/@dragonchain/5-things-you-should-know-about-dragon-factor-974c1c1b9b6a)

Comment if you tried out the first course, let me know what you think.

Any testimonials or comments welcome. If there are any questions I'll do my best to answer. Official Twitter account is https://www.twitter.com/DragonchainAca, I'm not affiliated with Dragonchain but happy to help.

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I completed all of the courses available. Overall I thought it was great. I noticed a couple of typos in the coursework, nothing too bad. At the end of the smart contract practitioner course, the material started getting pretty advanced. I believe that material moved a bit too fast, all of the sudden we were building node.js script files. It will be interesting to see how they present more advanced materials, I can't imagine going much deeper without some basic programming knowledge as a pre-requisite.