As I already mentioned after trying to learn blockchain development from various sources I was feeling completely messed up. Not understanding how to set the pieces of the puzzle - those tiny parts I already learned and coded by myself.

I had written, compiled, and deployed several simple smart contracts, but felt uncertain about what should be my next steps to become a Web3/blockchain developer.

At that point (end of September 2022) I compared all Web3 learning resources and liked Chainshot most of all for its well-structured material. I joined their Discord to find out that Chainshot was recently acquired by Alchemy and they plan to launch Alchemy University (AU) specializing in Web3 education and integrate Chainshot's learning system there.

I checked Alchemy's website and filled out the "Early Access" application hoping to join AU ASAP.

Meanwhile also joined Alchemy's Discord trying to figure out when the University will open its virtual doors to Web3 freshmen.

There were no precise dates, and the guys from the Alchemy team advised me to take Road2Web3 self-paced course to immerse myself in the web3 development process.

Before starting the r2w3 course I also completed quite a simple tutorial, beginner-friendly "Hello world". 

https://goerli.etherscan.io/address/0xc3450db46F7a653b832E31CB2f3FDC46A309AA0B#writeContract

It helped me to refresh what I already learned before - how to create and deploy a smart contract on Ethereum and also how to use some new tech stack:

• Alchemy app, RPC;

• Goerli faucet

• Command line

• Hardhat

• Solidity

• Metamask

• Ethers.js

In the next post, I will write about weeks 1-4 of the Road2Web3 course