At Bitcoin Market Journal, we’re frequently asked, “Where can I learn more about blockchain?” Whether you’re a business professional looking to understand the basics of blockchain or a developer looking to increase your programming knowledge, this is your go-to guide for the best online blockchain classes.
Developer-focused blockchain classes are oriented toward technology and application. They teach you to install and code within the blockchain environment. These courses are best for a reader interested in working in blockchain as a developer.
Business-focused blockchain courses teach business and theory. While they will often discuss technology, they do so from a theoretical standpoint. These courses are best for a reader interested in understanding blockchain from a business perspective.
Developer-Focused
Learning to code means learning the ins and outs of programming.
It’s more important that you understand how to think like a coder than that you learn specific languages. Like most modern development, blockchain is spread across a wide variety of languages. Some rely on standard workhorse languages, such as Bitcoin’s C++ codebase. Other projects go out and invent their own programming languages, like Ethereum’s Solidity.
The most important takeaway from any good blockchain course isn’t the language(s) you’ll learn. It’s your ability to learn new ones as a project demands it. So we have not reviewed technical courses for how well they will teach you specific languages, but rather how well they will help you to think like a programmer.
These courses will teach you what you need to understand without pigeonholing you into a niche language you might never need again.
Investor-Focused
These courses will teach you how blockchain works from a blockchain architecture, development, and business standpoint. They will teach you about the back-end infrastructure that tokens rely on, how to actually use the public ledger once it’s working, and how to build upon other people’s work. All of this is called “architecture” in development-speak.
It’s basically what you do with that fancy coding language once you understand it.
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