NEAR Blockchain Smart Contract Development

🌟 **NEAR Blockchain Smart Contract Development with Rust** 🌟**Course Headline:**
Unlock the full potential of NEAR blockchain by mastering Rust, a language designed for performance and safety. Dive into smart contract development with our comprehensive course that will equip you with the necessary skills to create, deploy, and interact with your own contracts on the NEAR platform.

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**Course Description:**

Are you ready to embark on an exciting journey into the world of blockchain development? Our online course “NEAR Blockchain Smart Contract Development with Rust” is meticulously crafted to guide both beginners and experienced developers through the process of creating robust and secure smart contracts using Rust. This language, known for its speed, memory safety, and concurrency features, is an ideal choice for building NEAR smart contracts.

**Section 1: Rust Language Fundamentals** 🧩

In the first section of the course, we will lay a solid foundation by introducing you to the Rust programming language. You’ll learn about its main features and syntax through hands-on activities. Here’s what you can expect to cover:

– 🚀 **Rust Installation and Basics**: Get started with setting up your Rust development environment.
– 📦 **Cargo**: Master Rust’s powerful build system and package manager, Cargo.
– ☑️ **Crates and packages**: Understand how to leverage external libraries to enhance your projects.
– 📝 **Variables, Constants, and Mutability**: Learn the ins and outs of data immutability in Rust.
– 🤖 **Data Types**: Explore scalar types, compound types, and understand their roles in Rust programming.
– ⬇️/**Functions**: Write functions to perform various tasks and master the use of closures and higher-ordered functions.
– 🔄 **Control Flows**: Get comfortable with conditional statements, loops, and the unique `if let` construct.
– 🏭 **Ownership (Scope)**: Grasp the ownership system to avoid common memory errors.
– 🖨️ **References and Borrowing**: Learn how to safely share data without running into concurrency issues.
– ✍️ **Mutable References**: Understand the implications of mutable references in your code.
– 🏠 **Structs**: Define and initialize complex data structures.
– 🎯 **Defining and Calling Methods**: Implement methods to add functionality to your structs or any type.
– ⚛️ **Enums and Match Control Flow**: Learn how to define custom types and patterns in Rust.
– 🚀 **Modules**: Organize your code into modules for better structure and reusability.
– 📊 **Vector and HashMap**: Manage collections of data effectively.
– ⚠️/**Recoverable vs Unrecoverable Errors**: Handle errors gracefully to ensure your program can recover from unexpected situations.
– 🎭 **Traits**: Define shared behavior and use traits as interfaces in your code.
– 📥 **Command Line Arguments and File I/O**: Read inputs from the command line and files.
– 🔥 **Printing to Standard Error**: Learn how to report errors in Rust using `eprintln!`.
– 🔄 **Iterator Trait**: Use iterators to traverse collections of data.
– 📦 **Box**: Store data on the heap and manage memory usage.
– 🧠 **Concurrency**: Write concurrent code, create threads, and pass messages between them.
– 🔒 **Mutexes**: Coordinate access to shared mutable data across threads safely.
– ✅ **Testing**: Write unit tests and integration tests for your Rust programs.

**Section 2: NEAR Smart Contract Development** 🚀

With a solid grasp of Rust, you’ll then shift focus to applying your knowledge to NEAR smart contracts. This section includes:

– 🛠️ **Account Creation on Near Testnet**: Learn how to create accounts on the NEAR blockchain using a web wallet for testing purposes.
– 🏗️ **Compiling and Deploying Smart Contracts**: Use Gitpod to compile and deploy your smart contracts on the NEAR Testnet account.
– ⚙️ **Interacting with Deployed Contracts**: Use command line tools to interact with deployed smart contracts.
– ⏱️ **Hands-On Experience**: Compile and deploy a sample counter smart contract on your own account, achieving this task within 20 minutes.

**Summary and Further Learning:**

To complement the practical skills you’ll acquire in this course, we recommend “The Book” by Gary B. Kernahan and Timothy B. Moore for a deeper understanding of each topic and advanced features of Rust. This extensive guide will serve as an excellent reference throughout your learning journey.

Join us on this interactive and informative journey to become proficient in NEAR Blockchain Smart Contract Development with Rust! 🚀✨