Swapy Network team opening the Workshop

Past Saturday (17 Feb 2018), Swapy Network hosted the 2nd Ethereum-BH Workshop (for free), in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The event was organized by Swapy Network and consisted of an introductory hands on activity based on the Truffle Framework Pet Shop Tutorial. Thanks Truffle team!

The tutorial was divided into small steps guided by our mentors and myself. Thanks to Adriel Santos (DApp Developer at Swapy Network), Luis Philipe Fidelis Fernandes (Solidity Developer at Swapy Network), Ícaro Harry (DApp Developer at Swapy Network), Marcio Mansur (Blockchain DevOps at Modular Network).

Attendees coding with support of 2nd Ethereum-BH Workshop mentors

The Swapy team forked the Pet Shop Tutorial repository adding features to explore other Solidity characteristics. As a result, our team made available a repository with instructions in Brazilian Portuguese to ease the understanding of the workshop attendees. The activity consisted of going through the instructions by developing a Pet Shop D’App . By the end of the activity, four challenges were presented to attendees. It was a 4 hours activity with the goal of developing a DApp from scratch using ethereum Solidity, the Truffle Framework, Ganache, and MetaMask covering:

(1) Dev Environment;

(2) Smart Contracts structure;

(3) Functions and modifiers;

(4) Smart Contracts deployment;

(5) Smart Contracts testing;

(6) DApp with Web3js and Metamask.

Luis Philipe (Solidity Developer at Swapy Network) explaining the proposed implementation

Around 25 people attended to the event, including people who already knew Ethereum, some who barely new Ethereum, and also a person who just started learning programming. Due to the engagement of the attendees, our feeling is that the event was a success. After the event, we sent out a survey to collect the attendees' opinion about what was their experience in the workshop. See what some of them said:

Excellent event, very well organized one more time. Particularly for me it was a great step since I am still learning programming and I could run a Dapp from scratch. It was a great experience and I will keep learning and contributing to the Ethereum-BH community. Congratulations to all the team, thanks!!

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Congratulations to the whole team, everything was impeccable. I became a fan of these guys, I hope we have more opportunities like this!

Since the workshop ran out of spots early, the waitlist remained full of people that could not attend the event. Because of that we are considering to repeat the 2nd Ethereum-BH Workshop (18 people already showed interest to attend). Stay tuned!

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DISCLAIMER: This is a non-profit initiative proposed by Blockchain/Ethereum professionals from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Our intention is to share the knowledge acquired during our career and contribute for the growth of Ethereum and the Open Source community.

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