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Blockchain Professional Developer Bootcamp | Part-Time
17 Nov - 10:00 AM
Fremont, United States
DOWNLOAD THE FULL SYLLABUS HERE
| 3 Week Part-Time Developer Bootcamp
Condense months of research and struggle into 6 full days of curated Blockchain development experience!
Blockchain Developers can make over $150,000+ in the Silicon Valley!
Delve into the inner workings of the Ethereum Blockchain, build your own smart contracts in Solidity, interact with them in your own customized decentralized applications, and walk away with industry-standard experience that leads to career-changing job opportunities in the Blockchain space!
Experience curriculum that has been vetted by notable CTOs and Blockchain developers within our network, ensuring that participants leave our bootcamp with the knowledge and tools required to get hired at Blockchain-focused companies. The result is a cohesive bootcamp experience that empowers developers to make the most of this exciting new technology.
Start with the basics, and work your way through hands-on coding sessions, collaborative projects, and a concluding hackathon to master the intricacies of building products in a decentralized programming environment. Interact directly with the Ethereum blockchain, expand your knowledge with the Truffle Suite, and walk away with functional projects you can continue to develop and showcase on your resume.
Upon completion, participants also earn our Blockchain Developer Certification and gain access to our growing Alumni Support System of CTOs at Blockchain companies, hiring partners, and industry contacts.
| How to Apply
Participants are admitted on an application-only basis. Send in your application here:
bit.ly/applytotheden
LIMITED TO 10 SPOTS. APPLY NOW TO LOCK IN YOUR SEAT.
| Audience:
This bootcamp is designed to give individuals with little to no experience in Solidity and Smart Contract programming all of the tools, resources, and hands-on experience they need to deploy functional Decentralized applications and write production-level code for Blockchain projects. 2+ Years of previous development experience is highly recommended, especially using an OOP languages like Python, Java, or Javascript.
| Agenda (3 Weeks, Saturdays & Sundays from 10AM-5PM):
Download the full syllabus HERE
Day 1 - Foundations of the Ethereum Network
- Introduction to Etheruem, gas, and Blockchain essentials
- Learn how to deploy a Smart Contract using Solidity syntax
- Utilize Remix/MetaMask/Mist
- Handle variables and arguements in a smart contract
- Project: Launch your own ERC-20 ICO Token and trade with the group- and more
Day 2 - Practice Building Secure Smart Contracts
- Add functional components to your Smart Contract- Discuss different Blockchains & Interfaces
- Contract to contract interactions- Real world project: Security Auditing smart contracts- and more
Day 3 - Connecting the Blockchain to the Real World
- Bit-level security
- Solidity Security protocols and best-practices- Build a Solidity library from scratch- Connect to the blockchain using the Web3 framework
- Real world project: Track employees with a decentralized RFID Reader
- and more
Day 4 - Smart contract Pitfalls, Testing, and Debugging
- Unit testing using Truffle Suite
- Oracles and acting on data outside of the blockchain - Project: Business network application modeling
- Brainstorm Hackathon Ideas- and more
Day 5 - To the Moon
- Project: Sports Betting on the Blockchain with Oracles
- IPFS
- Upgradeable Smart Contracts
- Design Patterns
- and more
Day 6 - Hackathon & Final Certification Exam
- Hackathon project brainstorming: Blockchain for Social Impact
- Let the hacking begin!
- Smart Contract optimization session
- Hackathon conculsion: Industry Expert judging panel
- DEN Professional Blockchain Developer Certification Exam
| About Your Instructor:
Elliot Friedman has been involved in cryptocurrencies since 2014 when he first became aware of this new asset class. Elliot is very excited about the potential for blockchain technology and the industries it can disrupt. He has a background in the C Programming Language that makes learning new blockchain frameworks easy. He is specifically interested in smart contracts, and privacy oriented cryptocurrencies as he believes corporations should not get to mine and collect consumer’s financial data. He has built blockchains in C, Python, and Javascript. He is currently reviewing source code from a new DAG that allows users to create smart contracts on top of a private chain.
| When does the class meet?
This course runs for 3 weekend sessions, Saturday - Sunday, from 10 AM - 5 PM. There will be a 1 hour break for lunch. There will be additional resources and activities to complete between sessions.
Following the course, you will be entered into The DEN's Alumni Network. This exclusive program grants you access to active Blockchain projects being built out by our newly certified Blockchain Developers. Entrepreneurs in our community will provide you with additional experience you can leverage in your job search.
| Pricing:
- $500 + 8% of your first year salary upon getting hired following our Bootcamp (for qualifying applicants only)
OR
- $2,500 Upfront
Yes, we accept crypto as well!
| What Should I Bring?
Bring your laptop and charger. Mac/PC/Linux are all supported.
There will be an hour lunch break each day.
Please arrive prepared to learn! Instructions will be sent out via email to properly prepare for the bootcamp.
Learn more about our community at theden.io!
Join the conversation on our telegram at t.me/dennexus!
You can always reach us directly at (408) 657-0861 or email us at hi@theden.io!
Tech Recruiter Happy Hour
13 Nov - 06:00 PM
San Francisco, United States
Register for and attend Codility's free Tech Recruiter Meetup!
We are having an open bar happy hour. So come grab a drink before tuning into a panel discussion on top-of-funnel recruiting tactics, then chat with other bay area tech recruiters over some tasty bites.
6pm - 6:45pm Grab a drink, (it's open bar) grab food and settle in
6:45pm - 7:30pm Panel Discussion: Unlocking Your Top-of-Funnel Tech Recruitment Panel
7:30pm - 8pm Grab another drink, a snack, and network with your peers
Moderator: Noah Wisnia, Director of Talent at AI Fund
Kuba Kucharski, Developer Evangelist at Codility
Ashley Crawford, Recruiting Hackathon Specialist at BeMyApp
Chris Cobo, Technical Recruiter at Honor
Please note that this is a tech recruiter / sourcing specific event.
Come join us at The Vault SF to mingle and meet other tech recruiters in our industry. We'll have food and drinks, so feel free to bring other colleagues along to grow your network!
Lumeos Happy Hour
12 Nov - 06:00 PM
San Francisco, United States
Lumeos will be hosting the Happy Hour right after the Scaling Blockchain Conference. (All Scaling Blockchain participants are considered registered)
We are looking forward to having all our friends in the EOS community come out, celebrate the end of the Hackathon and the many blockchain projects being built on top of EOS.
Get connected with the best developers, designers, hackers, and marketers in the blockchain industry. We invite all blockchain and EOS enthusiasts to join us. We will have pizza and drinks, all we ask is that you come with a smile and eagerness to learn.
Samsung XR Hackathon
09 Nov - 07:00 PM
Mountain View, United States
SXR @ SDC: booth, workshop, and hackathon
Samsung XR is a development platform for creating AR (wearable and phone-based), VR and hybrid applications for Samsung mobile devices.
Join us in our first hackathon, where you will can join other hackers, and designers to create XR apps, and try them in our experimental wearable XR headset. Come as a team (up to 4), or lone hacker to learn, develop and play with our new platform and headset.
Surprise us with what you can do. As with any v1 release, it’ll be rough, but your feedback and experience will help us make SXR a more robust platform.
**YOU ONLY NEED ONE TICKET FOR REGISTRATION**
SXR Talk & Booth @ SDC
Hear our talk on November 7, 2018 at 1:30pm during the first day of SDC, and come visit our booth to learn more and preview the platform in our experimental headset.
SXR Developer Workshop
Fundamentals and getting comfortable with SXR
River Studio (1062 Folsom Street, Suite 301, San Francisco, CA 94103)
November 8, 2018 @ 1:00pm to 5:30pm
SXR Hackathon
SVVR STUDIO, 1931 Old Middlefield Way ste a, Mountain View, CA
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Kick-off: November 9, 2018: 7pm to 9pm
Hackathon: November 10, 2018 – 9am to 10pm, November 11, 2018 – 9am to 6pm
Prizes
o 1st Place: Samsung Galaxy Note 9
o 2nd Place: Samsung Galaxy Tab S4
o 3rd Place: Samsung Galaxy Watch
Code of Conduct
A primary goal of Samsung’s SXR Hackathon event is to be inclusive to the largest number of participants, with the most varied and diverse backgrounds possible. As such, we are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, ability, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and religion (or lack thereof).The following behaviors are expected and requested of all conference community members:
Participate in an authentic and active way. In doing so, you contribute to the health and longevity of this conference community.
Exercise consideration and respect in your speech and actions.
Attempt collaboration before conflict.
Refrain from demeaning, discriminatory, or harassing behavior and speech.
Be mindful of your surroundings and of your fellow participants. Alert conference community organizers if you notice a dangerous situation, someone in distress, or violations of this Code of Conduct, even if they seem inconsequential.
Remember that conference community event venues may be shared with members of the public; please be respectful to all patrons of these locations.
To report any issues immediately, and to share any feedback, please contact Juan Wee (juan.wee@samsung.com) or Linda Tran (linda.tran@samsung.com). Please take a moment to read through the full version below.
1. Purpose
A primary goal of Samsung’s SXR Hackathon event is to be inclusive to the largest number of participants, with the most varied and diverse backgrounds possible. As such, we are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, ability, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and religion (or lack thereof).This Code of Conduct outlines our expectations for all those who participate in our conference community, as well as the consequences for unacceptable behavior.We invite all those who participate in SXR Hackathon to help us make the experience safe and positive everyone.
2. Encouraging and Recognizing Participation
A supplemental goal of this Code of Conduct is to increase meaningful collaboration by encouraging participants to recognize and strengthen the relationships between our actions and their effects on our conference community.Intentional, positive action is essential to avoid replicating within our conference community the many forms of inequality that exist in greater society. For this reason, we outline in this Code of Conduct expected behavior as well as prohibited behavior.If you see someone who is making an extra effort to ensure our conference community is welcoming, friendly, and encourages all participants to contribute to the fullest extent, recognize them for their good work either personally or by letting conference organizers know.
3. Expected Behavior
The following behaviors are expected and requested of all conference community members:
Participate in an authentic and active way. In doing so, you contribute to the health and longevity of this conference community.
Exercise consideration and respect in your speech and actions.
Attempt collaboration before conflict.
Refrain from demeaning, discriminatory, or harassing behavior and speech.
Be mindful of your surroundings and of your fellow participants. Alert conference community organizers if you notice a dangerous situation, someone in distress, or violations of this Code of Conduct, even if they seem inconsequential.
Remember that our venue may be shared with members of the public; please be respectful to all patrons of these locations.
4. Unacceptable Behavior
The following behaviors are considered harassment and are unacceptable within our conference community:
Violence and threats of violence.
Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm.
Derogatory comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, or socio-economic status.
Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behaviour in spaces where they're not appropriate.
Posting or threatening to post other people's personally identifying information (“doxing”).
Deliberate misgendering or use of “dead” or rejected names.
Inappropriate photography or recording.
Physical contact or simulated physical contact (e.g. textual messages like "hug" or "backrub") without affirmative consent.
Unwelcome sexual attention. This includes, sexualized comments or jokes; inappropriate touching, groping, and unwelcome sexual advances.
Deliberate intimidation, stalking or following (online or in person).
Sustained disruption of conference community events, including talks and presentations.
Advocating for, or encouraging, any of the above behavior.
5. Consequences of Unacceptable Behavior
Unacceptable behavior from any conference community member, including sponsors and those with decision-making authority, will not be tolerated.Anyone asked to stop unacceptable behavior is expected to comply immediately.If a conference community member engages in unacceptable behavior, the conference organizers may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including a temporary ban or permanent expulsion from the conference community without warning (and without refund in the case of a paid event).
6. Reporting Guidelines
If you are subject to or witness unacceptable behavior, or have any other concerns, please notify one of the points of contact, Juan Wee (juan.wee@samsung.com) or Linda Tran (linda.tran@samsung.com) or speak to a member of the event team.Additionally, conference organizers are available to help conference community members engage with local law enforcement or to otherwise help those experiencing unacceptable behavior feel safe. Organizers will also provide escorts as desired by the person experiencing distress.
7. Addressing Grievances
If you feel you have been falsely or unfairly accused of violating this Code of Conduct, you should notify the conference conduct team by emailing one of the points of contact, Juan Wee (juan.wee@samsung.com) or Linda Tran (linda.tran@samsung.com) with a concise description of your grievance. Your grievance will be handled in accordance with our existing governing policies.
8. Scope
We expect all conference community participants (contributors, paid or otherwise; sponsors; and other guests) to abide by this Code of Conduct in all conference community venues – online and in-person – as well as in all one-on-one communications pertaining to conference community business.This Code of Conduct and its related procedures also applies to unacceptable behavior occurring outside the scope of conference community activities when such behavior has the potential to adversely affect the safety and well-being of conference community members.
Contact info Juan Wee (juan.wee@samsung.com) or Linda Tran (linda.tran@samsung.com)
License and attribution
This Code of Conduct is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.It has been adapted with few modifications from Mozilla’s View Source code of conduct, which in turn was adapted from Stumptown Syndicate’s Citizen Code of Conduct, portions of which are derived from the Django Code of Conduct and the Geek Feminism Anti-Harassment Policy. Additional text from LGBTQ in Technology Code of Conduct.
Data Science Mini Hackathon
08 Nov - 06:00 PM
Palo Alto, United States
$500
Data scientists -- students and professionals -- in the San Francisco Bay Area! MatrixDS and Bajaware invite you to participate in the first Bay Area Data Science mini-hackathon. You'll be challenged to design and prototype a forecast and visualization of regional financial data from across Mexico. Come network, collaborate and compete with your data science peers. Win $500 for the best solution.
Springer Nature Hackathon: Data Visualization & Mixed Reality in Research Publishing
07 Nov - 05:00 PM
San Francisco, United States
Springer Nature invites you to participate in our upcoming hackathon. Create new applications that help researchers advance discovery, using data visualization and mixed reality.
Join us at the Microsoft Reactor in San Francisco from November 7-9 for an opportunity to build new and innovative mixed reality applications using Springer Nature’s data and research publications.
During the Hackathon, experts from Springer Nature will support teams as they work with our unique datasets. From eBooks to journals, to research tools like SN SciGraph or APIs from Bookmetrix, Unsilo or Dimensions, we’ll provide you with the metadata behind our products and services.
Motivation
We believe the future holds many exciting possibilities for scientific data, beyond the published page. Previous Springer Nature Hack Days have explored challenges in discovery, research data and analytics. This event in our series takes a more visual approach, inspired by advances in Mixed Reality technologies. From creating virtual science labs, to enhancing the reading experience, to interacting in real time with charts and diagrams - help shape the way we use scientific data by advancing discovery and improving research with applications that have never been thought of before. Participants will have access to billions of data points across scientific, technical, and medical publishing with applications across disciplines.
Prizes & Perks
Members of the winning team will each receive a Windows Mixed Reality Headset and an Amazon Gift Card. The winning team will also have the chance to pitch their concept to Springer Nature and win a partnership.
This event is completely free and will be held at the Microsoft Reactor in downtown San Francisco. We will provide food, drinks and snacks throughout the event. Participants will have access to HoloLens and Windows Mixed Reality Headsets during the event, on loan from the Reactor (quantities are limited); mentors will be available to guide you in using these technologies. You’ll be able to network with developers and designers, and data experts from Springer Nature and other cooperating companies, and help shape the future of research data visualization, in a multidisciplinary environment.
Who should attend?
Creative minds across the board are encouraged to participate -- including (but not limited to): Developers, Designers, UX Experts, PhDs, University Students, Corporate and Academic Librarians, Knowledge Managers, Corporate Researchers, Product Designers, Data Visionaries, Evangelists.
Questions?
Please contact us at hack-day@springernature.com.
Intuit QuickBooks SmallBizHack Mountain View
03 Nov - 02:02 PM
Mountain View, United States
$US5,000
Developers in the Bay Area! QuickBooks and @IntuitDev invite you to participate in SmallBizHack 2018 -- a small business hackathon. Think you've got an awesome idea that will save a small business time or money? Your project will be judged based on its Impact, Innovation, Quality, and Ease of Use. Come showcase your stuff and compete for the Grand Prize of $5000.
Small Business Hackathon 2018
03 Nov - 09:00 AM
Mountain View, United States
$US5,000
Developers in the Bay Area! QuickBooks and @IntuitDev invite you to participate in SmallBizHack 2018 -- a small business hackathon. Think you've got an awesome idea that will save a small business time or money? Your project will be judged based on its Impact, Innovation, Quality, and Ease of Use. Come showcase your stuff and compete for the Grand Prize of $5000.
IDEAS Global Blockchain & Data Analytics Hackathon at Stanford University
28 Oct - 10:00 AM
Stanford, United States
Blockchain and data analytics developers in Silicon Valley! You're invited to participate in the IDEAS Global Blockchain & Data Analytics Hackathon at Stanford University. Come as a coder/developer team and participate in your choice of either the blockchain or the data analytics section of the hackathon. You will have 2 days to hack a team project, compete for prizes and pitch your idea to top venture capital investors.
IDEAS Blockchain Hackathon at Stanford University
28 Oct - 10:00 AM
Stanford, United States
Blockchain and data analytics developers in Silicon Valley! You're invited to participate in the IDEAS Global Blockchain & Data Analytics Hackathon at Stanford University. Come as a coder/developer team and participate in your choice of either the blockchain or the data analytics section of the hackathon. You will have 2 days to hack a team project, compete for prizes and pitch your idea to top venture capital investors.