SHILL Issue 140
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Mike Hale<br />
Developer Education<br />
freeCodeCamp<br />
freeCodeCamp is a popular platform for learning various programming and web development topics, and it’s<br />
known for its structured curriculum, hands-on projects, and active community.<br />
Now they are offering a complete Solana Curriculum funded by the Solana Foundation.<br />
It offers an interactive way to learn Solana’s blockchain protocol and the tool ecosystem by building a series of 15<br />
interactive projects focusing on learning the Solana protocol and its tools.<br />
Through these projects, you’ll learn how to build and deploy smart contracts, develop dApps, and use Solana’s<br />
command line tools.<br />
Some of the projects included in the curriculum are:<br />
• Building a “Hello World” smart contract<br />
• Working with Solana’s token program to mint fungible tokens<br />
• Using the Metaplex SDK to mint NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens)<br />
• Building games like Tic-Tac-Toe and an Anchor leaderboard<br />
• Deploying applications to Devnet.<br />
Introducing the Solana Curriculum: Smart Contracts, dApps, and Command Line Tools<br />
Unboxed Advanced Lessons on SolDev<br />
For more experienced developers looking to level up, Unboxed has added 4 new Advanced Solana Programming<br />
lessons to their popular course.<br />
The Program Architecture lesson covers different architectural considerations and optimizations related to memory,<br />
storage size, and concurrency.<br />
The Oracles lesson guides you through understanding the use of oracles and oracle networks and utilizing Switchboard<br />
feeds in your programs.<br />
The Verifiable Randomness lesson explains why randomness is problematic on the blockchain and how to overcome<br />
this challenge, and how to use VRF such as the one offered by Switchboard.<br />
The Compressed NFT lesson provides a comprehensive guide on state compression and compressed NFTs using<br />
Metaplex’s Bubblegum program and SDK.<br />
Solana Development Course<br />
New Wallet Features<br />
Phantom Shortcuts<br />
Phantom is introducing “Shortcuts”, a feature to enhance the utility of NFTs and offers a more interactive and<br />
informed experience with digital collectibles.<br />
It acts as a “Linktree” for NFTs for associated links of an NFT collection (like official websites, social media, chat<br />
groups) that users can access directly from their wallets.<br />
Shortcuts is currently in beta with five launch partners, but four more projects will be integrated soon.<br />
Introducing Shortcuts<br />
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