At the end of the last post regarding the Blockchain 3.0 conference, we gave a short introduction to our bootcamp training program. In this article we are going to look closely at what the training was like, and in later articles, we’ll explore some of dApps that were developed by students.

At the Swiss World Economic Forum 2016 in Davos they discussed the future of national industrial policies for the the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ as it called, highlighting the insufficient core technical manpower to make it happen. To help remedy that situation, Color Development Bootcamp (DT&BB) training was held from January 19th to February 7th, sponsored by Governtech and 3KSoftware. A 5 week (13 class) bootcamp, with approximately 50 students ranging from elementary to graduate school age, and even included some office workers with different backgrounds to learn some core technologies of the fourth industrial revolution: Blockchain, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence(A.I).

In the beginning, the strengths of the blockchain stemmed from its transparent immutable ledger and the governance model which has proven resilient over it’s 9 year lifespan. Then with Ethereum came the rise of smart contracts, which you’re probably familiar with by now if you’ve been following the blockchain world for a while. However, in existing blockchain ecosystems, it is very hard to develop smart contracts that are interchangeable among normal users. Additionally, there are limitations in efficiently conducting transactions with cryptocurrency since it can be both time consuming and costly. Here at Color, we want to help solve that problem and make tools to allow smart contracts to be created and leveraged by the average user.

At the bootcamp hosted by Governtech and 3KSoftware, participants were given lectures on blockchain and Color Engine, and other related fields including artificial intelligence, and Big Data. Additionally, a practice lab, complete with assistant tutors was setup so students could put their newly acquired skills into practice. Students took classes on networking, consensus algorithms, placement of transactions onto the blockchain, and how to use Color Engine, a patented technology that, when paired with other tools, assists in the creation of smart-contracts with a sort of web form editor called Xstyler. XStyler is a form editor based on HTML5 that makes data easy to view in web browsers and on the blockchain, and easy to work with using blockchain programming languages like Solidity. This technology is easy enough for elementary students to learn, and so students were able to design and produce their own smart contracts.

After the 13 bootcamp classes, 6 dApps were completed by the students. Of those completed were an integrated donation system for transparent donations, a hospital documentation system, a wine distribution tracking system, a used book trading system, a used car trading system, and a provably fair job application system to combat nepotism and inefficiencies in the hiring process. Professor David Thaw from Pittsburgh University in the U.S. highly praised the dApps saying they are not at all inferior to the ones developed by IVY league computer engineering students.

The bootcamp participants did not have a computer science background so it was incredible to see what people from such diverse backgrounds could come up with together. Students were enthralled by the world of blockchain, and appreciative of the two companies that provided free training they couldn’t get elsewhere. The youngest participant in the bootcamp, fourth grader Jaewon Jeong produced a bootcamp certificate based on Color Engine on his own in just two hours.

Demonstrations of applications by students were introduced at the BlockChain 3.0 conference on February 9th. The bootcamp aims to cultivate experts in the field of blockchain, cryptography, big data, and artificial intelligence through technology learning. These bootcamps are expected to spread across the world and will be developed not only in Korea but also in many universities in the United States. Stay tuned for our next series of blog posts where we introduce some of the projects created by the students at the bootcamp!

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