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Blockchain Basics

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This first course of the Blockchain specialization provides a broad overview of the essential concepts of blockchain technology – by initially exploring the Bitcoin protocol followed by the Ethereum protocol – to lay the foundation necessary for developing applications and programming. You will be equipped with the knowledge needed to create nodes on your personal Ethereum blockchain, create accounts, unlock accounts, mine, transact, transfer Ethers, and check balances. You will learn about the decentralized peer-to-peer network, an immutable distributed ledger and the trust model that defines a blockchain. This course enables you to explain basic components of a blockchain (transaction, block, block header, and the chain) its operations (verification, validation, and consensus model) underlying algorithms, and essentials of trust (hard fork and soft fork). Content includes the hashing and cryptography foundations indispensable to blockchain programming, which is the focus of two subsequent specialization courses, Smart Contracts and Decentralized Applications (Dapps). You will work on a virtual machine image, specifically created for this course, to build an Ethereum test chain and operate on the chain. This hands-on activity will help you understand the workings of a blockchain, its transactions, blocks and mining. Main concepts are delivered through videos, demos and hands-on exercises.

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Rating 4.5 based on 551 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Starts Jun 26 (43 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From University at Buffalo, The State University of New York via Coursera
Instructor Bina Ramamurthy
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Language English
Subjects Programming IT & Networking
Tags Computer Science Software Development Computer Security And Networks

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blockchain basics

A comprehensive course covering everything related to Blockchain Basics and great for Beginners and any professional who wants to start their career in Blockchain technology can take this course.

This course helps in setting up a strong foundation to blockchain basics Best Course ever I have done.

for understanding blockchain basics this is best Good Course!

<3 Blockchain Basics It is a great course that provides one with complete details and references on the giving topic of Blockchain Basics The hands on part is too good.

It´s a great start if you want to understand the basics of Blockchain technology; it´s a MUST if you are insterested in the topic Good introduction to the Blockchain Basics.

I would stongly recommend the course learners to do journal readings twice or thrice given at the end of each module to enhance the understanding on blockchain basics snd the module sujbect.

I love this course on Blockchain Basics and highly suggest to take it!

A good in depth of blockchain basics.

Very helpful to know blockchain basics Amazin course!

A great introduction to Blockchain basics and concepts Great course for a blockchain beginner who intends to dive deep into the subject... Good I'd love to have more detailed explanations inn videos.

Good course statisfied best course on blockchain basics.instructor was very informative Out of date: the content is from 2017 I believe, and this is a field that is evolving so fast.

I'd recommend the course Blockchain Basics for anyone interested in blockchain and the ideas behind it.

In terms of content I think that the Blockchain Basics offered by LinkedIn was a bit better and more informative.

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programming assignment

The only frustration was with completing the final programming assignment.

firefox, not Chrome) and VM version in the BODY of the programming assignment, not in the FAQs!

Explains the concepts in very efficient manner with Great Programming Assignment.

Programming Assignment is very easy.

The programming assignment was simple but neat.

Good for basic blockchain concepts more practical approach would have been better and programming assignment was not satisfactory Excellent!

The course was nicely setup and I would love to join the next course of the same chain to do masters in it and have more and more exciting programming assignments awesome It introduces every concept neatly!

The supplemented material (in other words self-study) is excellent and in my opinion is the only way to master the concepts and details of this discipline Programming assignment should be more verbose with more technical details.

I have no doubt the information was contained in the additional readiness material but I sense many participants will use those as additional resources, not primary references for the quizzes, just like I did.Programming assignment at the end was great, needs updated instructions for installing on macOS.

But the time i took to complete the quiz' in all the weeks is half of that i took to complete the programming assignment.

The programming assignments could be a little more challenging.

Just one suggestion, I would have preferred a basic programming assignment as well that might enable the learners to imitate a general blockchain.

I loved the programming assignment.

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bitcoin and ethereum

I did enjoy reading through the original Bitcoin and Ethereum whitepapers with the context provided by the course.

The course provides a high-level overview of blockchains, mainly Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Very good way to start learning the world of Blockchains, with clear explanations on the basics of cryptocurrency (Bitcoin and Ethereum).

Thanks Is an excelente course to be introduced in the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchain concept.

Great content to introduce you to the world of Blockchain, bitcoin and ethereum.

A simple, but excellent training about Blockchain, especially about Bitcoin and Ethereum characteristics.

outstanding course Very good overview of the basic concepts around Blockchain and how it is used in both bitcoin and ethereum.

One of the Best course for Absolutely Beginners :-) Discussed Core Fundamental Factors of Blockchain of Bitcoin and Ethereum.

One of the best cources in Blockchain basics Its very helpful to learn the blockchain basics that cover bitcoin and ethereum as well.

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final project

In the final project, the miner never generated ether.

Great introduction, and the final project is a profitable way to understand some of the blockchain elements Liked the course and congrats to all in the Project instructions need one update.

The final project was a let-down, it should be more hands-on (for example: why provide a GUI, you could have provided the CLI commands and asked students to execute the commands), it did not really pose the challenge one expects.

Setting up the final project to an age - instructions could have been a lot clearer and shouldn't require searching through forums to resolve.

I had a technical issue with the final project that couldn't solve.

Quiz sessions are well designed and final project is nicely setup and designed.

Good basic course but falls down in instructions for completing final project...(though info.

The final project was pretty easy and will explore some later to see if I can master it.

There could have been more support to explain what we were doing in the final project as well.

And then, in the final project, there is this virtual machine that you have to use, which includes a 5 second wait after every action you take.

The instructions for the final project could be better in my opinion.

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overview of blockchain

very good for beginners AWESOME Easy Explantion and All tasks went with ease due simple lessons Great teacher - programming assignment needs more details to follow The course is well designed to give you an overview of Blockchain and the basic concepts.

Great overview of Blockchain technology.

very basic but ok The course is excellent for all those looking for a basic overview of blockchain.

I really enjoyed the simplified approach of learning and mostly hands-on project @ the end of the course Really great high-level overview of blockchain fundamentals I thought there was quite a substantial amount of assumed knowledge and jumping to things that hadn't yet been properly explained.

High level overview of blockchain as well as simplification of some complex programming concepts all packed in single course.

Very clear overview of Blockchain principles!

The course provides a great overview of blockchain technology.

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block chain

It was a good course especially the assignment at the last An in depth introduction to block chain with relevant materials.

Good to learn Blockchain basics, this will definitely help improve my skills on BlockChain Excellent; well coverage of the topics Good material to know block chain fundamentals Very informative...

One of the best Block chain course i have come across till date .

Easy for the beginners who wants to learn a basics in Block chain.

Very good Naration, i have got clear understadning about Block chain, infact examples and the Ref project is very helpfull.

The only slight negative point I found is the English subtitling which, sometime, is not correct and creates confusions Good way to meet block chain world Course content is structured in such a way that it's clear, concise and easy to grasp the concepts.

This is a great way to get started with Block Chain.

In general this course will give you the sufficient tools for you to understand and comprehend what Block Chains are all about.

Basics of Block Chain is covered.

it give me great understanding about block chain technology, Teacher have great knowledge she transfer it student very beautiful way.

So nice overall course experience especially program assignment its like a spoon feed of block chain beginners.

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course for beginners

wonderful experience keep it up Pathetic awesome It provides the basic theory conception for Block Chain Technology Exceptionally good course for beginners.

very well structured course for beginners I like it a lot Too good to start the blockchain concepts understanding Basics are very good Awesome experience with Mam Still learning Great overview The programming assignment is not really testing the knowledge gained Great beginning course.. its good to knowinng about the blockchain Very good and enjoyable with lots of additional material allowing me to delve and investigate further.

Very informative for a beginner, Thank You @Bina and the University at Buffalo team for offering this on Coursera It's a well organized course for beginners.

It is a great course for beginners and first time learners on Blockchain.

Perfect course for beginners An Excellent Course !

Awesome Course for Beginners and Experts as well.

a good high-level review course for beginners.Definitely recommended!

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easy to understand

Good introduction for beginner Very good introductions, easy to understand and remember.

Tutorials were neatly designed, easy to understand with right text and graphics.

Amazing Course , easy to follow , in depth explanation, easy to understand , I have was amazing Experience, still learning a lot ... and for me this was the best way to start learn about blockchain Good basic introduction.

Course was good but in the project Great course, easy to understand Thank you very much!

`Great succinct introduction good and interesting Clear and concise material great course ,update content It's easy to understand and the exercises are easy to complete.

This course is easy to understand basics of blockchain.. One should definitely learn from this course.

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really enjoyed

!I really enjoyed it.

BTW I really enjoyed in this first step and want to take all the courses.

Really enjoyed, the materials supplied were great and the videos enhanced my understanding of the material even after reading multiple books, articles on blockchain/bitcoin/ethereum.

I really enjoyed it .... thancks for helping me pass it as a financial aid course module is very good but the assingment part is rubbish 5 times i downloaded ethereum.ova but while importing it was not found means its really bad i completed all but due to this technical issue i will not be able to complete the course.

thank you for your effort Fantastic teacher I really enjoyed what I learned and that is what made it a good experience.

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bina ramamurthy

I would like to say thanks to Coursera and Bina Ramamurthy.

Bina Ramamurthy has explained the basics its very nice and easily understandable basis for blockchain and cryptocurrency .all algorithm and processes are illustrated in very lucid and easy manners .best for beginners Great intro to the subject, even being an optional read, all the extra info in the course is curated in such a way that the content is amazing, final project is a really fun hands on with Ethereum and a way to make all the course content into practice.

Bina Ramamurthy is a great Teacher, she explains many complex Blockchain concepts in a very clear, concise and intuitively understood manner.

Excellent collection of materials and nice lectures from Bina Ramamurthy.

Thanks Bina Ramamurthy Ma'am.

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well structured

Haven't come across such an informative and well structured course for intro to blockchains.

g The course is very well structured,the content and links are also very helpful in deepening the concepts thereby increasing the understanding of the subject.

well structured and detailed course Should make more use of better visuals.

Excellent teacher and very well structured course.

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well designed

Very well designed both in terms of knowledge material as well as virtual machine to run actual transactions.

Great course Classes well designed and well taught An excellent way to get new learnings!

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Chain Sales Executive $70k

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Blockchain Engineer $87k

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Rating 4.5 based on 551 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Starts Jun 26 (43 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From University at Buffalo, The State University of New York via Coursera
Instructor Bina Ramamurthy
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Programming IT & Networking
Tags Computer Science Software Development Computer Security And Networks

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