About this course
Course Overview
Learn how to write CorDapp using secure programming guidelines. This class will exclusively cover Corda nodes, Corda transactions and Corda tools through a comprehensive deep dive.
This course has been meticulously put together and taught by world-class subject matter experts. The live training expert will spend over 50% of the time on labs covering the steps to integrate/develop an application with R3 Corda. There are use cases, proof of concepts, as well as interactive hands-on labs.
Target Audience
This course is designed for programmers and developers.
Course Objectives
What you'll learn:
Overview of Corda
- Principal features
- Concepts in Corda
- Consensus mechanism
- Business logic
- Comparisons/Main differences between Corda and Ethereum
Introduction to CorDapp
- What is a CorDapp?
- How to write a CorDapp
- How to upgrade a CorDapp to a new version
- Corda API
- Object serialization
- Secure programming guidelines
Corda Nodes
- Local nodes and how to execute them
- Deploying a Corda node
- Node configuration guidelines
- The Client RPC
- The Shell
- Node database system
- Node administration basics
Corda Ecosystem
- Setting up the network
- How to permission the network
- The Network Map
- Versioning process
Programming Smart Contracts in Corda
- Writing a smart contract
- Writing a smart contract test
- Upgrading smart contracts
- Integration testing
Client RPC API and Smart Contracts Coding
- Overview of client RPC API
- Whitelisting classes from CorDapp
Transactions
- Overview of Corda transactions
- Life cycle of Corda transactions
- Gathering inputs
- Generating commands
- Generating outputs
- Completing the transactions
- Committing transactions
Modeling Business Processes
- Overview of workflows in Corda and continuation
- A 2-party trading workflow
- Suspendable functions
- White-listed classes and the Corda nodes
- Initiating the workflow
- How to implement the seller and the buyer
- Flow sessions
Corda Tools
- Node Explorer
- Network Simulator
- How to implement Corda Network on AWS Marketplace
- Building a Corda VM from the Azure Marketplace
- Load testing in Corda networks
Troubleshooting the CorDapp
- JVM issues
- IDEA issues
- Slow localhost issues
Course Content
Please see the course objectives.
Course Prerequisites
This course is highly technical and requires students to be comfortable with coding. To prepare for the class you must:
- Provide their own computer (Mac/PC/Linux) (note that all labs are hosted in a virtual environment)
- Have basic programming skills of C/C++ or Java Script
- Understand blockchain concepts
