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Aptos Institute

Helping developers learn Aptos! Made with ❤️ for Aptos Code Collision Hackaton in 2024.

Problems solved

For developers
  • Reduces friction in learning by providing accessible materials
  • Lowers the entry barrier with simplified jargon
  • Establishes a clear learning path, from beginner to master
  • Offers a hands-on, gamified experience instead of endless theory
  • Reduces dependencies needed for development, as everything runs fully in-browser
  • Provides on-chain resume as demonstration of skills
For ecosystem
  • Influx of quality developers
  • Simplifies the hiring process with developers' on-chain resumes

Core features

  • Interactive in-browser coding courses with no dependencies
  • Token-based rewards tied to performance in courses
  • Unlocking advanced courses by burning tokens
  • Soulbound NFTs with dynamic metadata that evolves as users progress
  • Hiring platform

Overview

A gamified learning approach unlocks huge improvements to student's motivation to learn. Rather than dropping someone into a huge pool of resources and letting them drown in them, we can redefine the landscape and present only resources relevant to their next assignment. Rather then forcing them to come up with topics they want to learn about, we present them with options relevant to their progress path.

With each completed course, users get score and tokens, influenced by their number of attempts and any hints they used. That score can be improved later by repeating the same course.

courses

Tokens are awarded based on score improvement and are fully on-chain. That allows any third party to integrate our internal currency and seamlessly build on top of Aptos Institute. Accumulated tokens can be burned to unlock more advanced courses on user's path tree, or "bump up" user's profile, making it more visible to hiring companies.

On-chain resume is a soulbound NFT with dynamic metadata that evolves over time. It is a representation of skills someone has acquired through Aptos Institute and can be used as proof-of-skill when looking for a job.

explorer_resume

Our courses and materials are tailored to Aptos Ecosystem, combining jargon-free information with interactive coding experience which let's you write, compile and test your code in browser.

code_experience

When our students are ready to take positions in companies, we simplify the process by featuring our best students on our Hiring page, along with outlining their qualities proven in our courses.

hiring

The Future

Aptos Institute aims to expand beyond coding courses to include topics like Wallets, DeFi, Gas and other areas that are hard to grasp for beginners. Making it a hub for Aptos newbies whether they are devs or users.

As an open-source public good project, we also aim to crowd-source materials from individuals or groups from everywhere in a world. This also allows for decentralized fact-checking and maintenance of existing materials. Think of this as your teacher having hundreds or thousands of brains instead of one!

Closing thoughts And Demo

Developers are incentivized to go through a gamified hands-on curriculum, Companies benefit from hiring talent with verifiable, on-chain resumes, and the Aptos Ecosystem thrives!

Check out our Showcase Video for more details.