Introducing: “Code with Us”
Live online workshops by Cosmos
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The world is shifting rapidly and life as we know it is subject to change. But these tumultuous times are also a great opportunity to reinvent ourselves and use this time to improve.
As we continue the work of providing the developer community with information and resources, we are stepping up our efforts in securing personal guidance in onboarding a new wave of builders to the Cosmos ecosystem.
While online events foster information sharing, new ideas and technology, hands-on teaching and training are equally as important. Teaching and educational resources can be overlooked, often requiring significant time, preparation and consideration. We want to support and create a space that promotes educators, quality resources and workshops that the whole ecosystem can benefit from — especially newcomers.
To address this need, we are launching “Code with Us,” a live, interactive workshop program designed to educate and provide real-time practice to developers in the community.
The Cosmos “Code with Us” program brings workshops from our home offices to yours. There couldn’t be a better time to invest in online learning, especially with so many people working from home.
This program aims to provide everyone with access to the information and resources they need to become familiar with the Cosmos stack. These seminars are small workshops led by expert mentors from Tendermint Inc, Interchain GmbH, Agoric, Band Protocol, Confio.tech, Cosmic Compass & Freeflix Media, Cyber Devs, Chainsafe and others that will use their expertise to guide the community of developers from deploying a simple “Hello World” blockchain, to getting familiar with the Cosmos SDK architecture, running an IBC relayer, and much more.
Participants have the opportunity to access hands-on live lessons to code together in real-time with some of the community’s most respected contributors. Most of the workshops are structured in two-hour sessions with associated online materials or tutorials, and will take place roughly every two weeks. If you are looking for a quick and fun introduction to Cosmos’ tech, this is the perfect way to get started. To get started, make sure you sign up for “Code with Us” workshops.
We have put together a list of future workshops designed to educate, guide and inspire the next generation of innovators. Bear in mind that this list is subject to change as more community members express their enthusiasm to participate in the program.
New to Cosmos? No worries! Come and join the workshops and pick up a new skill in just 2 hours! With so many interesting themes to choose from, you can pick your favorites and you’re all set to begin your journey into the vast universe of the Cosmos ecosystem
Sign up for the “Code with Us” workshop program. We’ll send you a link to add the calendar, email reminders of the upcoming workshops and a list of documentation for each session.
What we expect participants to get out of this program:
- Get your hands dirty with Cosmos tech, and have fun while coding
- Master the basics of programming your own blockchain application and get answers to your questions in real-time
- Understand the common, high-level concepts of Cosmos SDK technology
- Develop basic skills in the Go programming language
Requirements:
- Participants of this course need to have basic programming skills as this is a course aimed at developers
- To complete the interactive challenges of the course, you’ll need a desktop or laptop computer with an internet connection
- Before the course, you’ll need to install Go onto your computer. You can download it here
- Please make sure to have google calendar so that you can log in and confirm your participation for the workshop
- The workshops will be held in English and will be based on the existing @cosmos resources and documentation.
The first workshop in this program is “Scavenger Hunt Tutorial” held by Billy Rennekamp scheduled for 11th May. (Billy is currently Interchain Foundation’s Grant Manager, Developer Relations at Interchain Gmbh and Founder of Clovers Network.)
In this workshop, you will learn to build a working game with its own internal economy using the Cosmos SDK, a framework to build scalable and interoperable application-specific blockchains in Go. The workshop will use the ‘scavenger hunt’ tutorial led and designed by Billy Rennekamp. If you’d like to get a head start and check out what you’ll be getting into, take a look at https://tutorials.cosmos.network/ (Scavenge).
If you’d like to participate in the first workshop from this program, please sign up for “Code with Us” and we will send you a calendar invite. No registration fee is required.
Future workshops will be announced two weeks in advance and we will onboard future participants through the same registration process to make sure your virtual seat is covered.
The world is indeed changing, but let’s use this opportunity to develop the skills you’ve always wanted to sharpen!
See you all in Cosmos!
