Programming is an essential skill to succeed in a lot of ways today. People from all disciplines are trying to gain this skill and have realized that it isn't rocket science but just gets boring to survive through the learning curve. Hence, community-based learning groups are a great solution to collaboratively learn to program. Blockchained India is one such learning community that marries blockchain and collaborative learning to teach blockchain programming skills to aspiring founders and developers.
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The India based community of blockchain enthusiasts is resolute in tackling the problems of today’s world through the power of distributed ledger technology, aka ‘Blockchain. With over 25000+ community members, it is the single largest pan-India contributor towards the knowledge base of blockchain and crypto!
“When the mission is as big as putting India at the forefront of this revolutionary technology, delivering a good quality upskilling program becomes so much more meaningful. It just makes the whole ‘100 days of code’ effort so close to our hearts. That’s why we see nothing short of the executive leaders of the best companies in the world partnering with us in this collaborative learning exercise. That is precisely why they look at supporting the top candidates through equity-free grants to help bootstrap their business.” says Akshay Aggarwal, the founder of Blockchained India and Blocumen Studios.
Though the main aim of their initiative is to introduce people to the technicalities of the blockchain world, they have also been able to add value through grants that help participants bring their ideas to fruition. They started with their first batch in April, which has come to an end with some amazing results in equity-free grants committed from the legendary billionaire VC Tim Draper’s Draper University and Canadian visionary Matt Spoke’s Open Foundation.
With registrations open for their second batch, they are keen on sharing their focus on the partakers will learn and unlearn about what they already know about open applications. They will learn afresh about this through a coding exercise which will demand 100 consecutive days of hard work and determination. The entire content is built around Java basics, blockchain intricacies, open applications, and application development.
It is a great opportunity to take the first step into the blockchain world. All you need to do is just dedicate an hour daily to this, and come out as a blockchain developer in 100 days without actually having to disrupt your everyday life!! Interesting isn’t it!
We asked a few participants on their experience with 100 days of code-
Suprabhat who works in IQVIA, was super enthusiastic in his response-
“I started 100 days of code with a thought that these 100 days will change the idea of Blockchain what I used to know. We got to know about the Blockchain infrastructure that companies are using and how much and what type of Blockchain solutions that the company can incorporate. We also learned about the Open Application Network(OAN) and Open Apps Architecture.
Questions like, why will Aion be the future for the Development of Open Apps got answered. We went through the documentation of AION and learned how easily a developer can create apps by leveraging their Libraries, jar files, etc.
Even though the stretch of this program may sometimes look like a long way but the team never lets you lose hope by motivating us throughout the program! Overall, I would like to thank everyone who was a part of 100 days of code and I will try to learn every day with Blockchain and all the learning paths which I got during this program”
While Avinash Sengar says having the best experience in blockchain learning-
"I feel that the 100 days of code is a great initiative by the Blockchain India team. I find it very useful in exploring new ideas and platforms into blockchain like the Aion, it was a great experience to work and learn together under their expert guidance."
In a keynote address at India- Ideas Summit, Prime minister Narendra Modi endorsed blockchain as an ‘opportunity in frontier technology‘, thus renewing the hopes of the mass adoption of blockchain technology in various industries in India.
“Opportunities in technology also include opportunities in the frontier technologies of 5G, Big data analytics, Quantum computing, Blockchain and Internet of things,”
As per the recently introduced New Education Policy 2020, the focus will now more be on the development of students from an early stage to get them utter expertise!
With our Prime Minister urging everyone to take advantage of this revolutionary technology and now with the focus on the early development of students, it's high time even for us as adults to start upgrading/ upskilling ourselves so that even we are nose-to-tail with other countries in terms of the latest trends and adoption in the technology!