Teaching kids to code

40 / Learn about the connection between gaming and open source, the potential of the metaverse, and the challenge of creating a readable language for smart contracts in episode 40 of the podcast.

Timeline

00:44 Open source metaverse platform

02:23 The drink

03:21 And the famed rum!

05:33 Metaverse superheroes

05:45 Deploy on TRON

12:43 Who is backing TRON?

14:30 What is Chainlink?

18:39 What actually is randomness?

20:34 The analogy

21:33 Scaffolding and natural language

30:45 Can we get dApp scaffolding in plain HTML?

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Gaming and open source
- Metaverse super repo: https://www.npmjs.com/package/create-metaverse @dogedestinyapp
- https://game7.io
Notes about deploying on TRON
Chainlink
- Nothing is verifiably random on blockchain
Scaffold-ETH, ETH dev speedrun
The art of code talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6avJHaC3C2U
Can we make a more readable language for smart contracts?
- Review of the “iceberg” of programming languages
When would you use soul-bound tokens? See also https://twitter.com/fulldecent/status/1536854323778420736
First steps
- See https://wizard.openzeppelin.com
- Ethernaut
- Crypto Zombies
- Scaffold eth
Web dev learning
- Fireship