# Road to Web3 (Week 1)

**Published by:** [Imdny](https://paragraph.com/@imdny/)
**Published on:** 2022-10-31
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@imdny/road-to-web3-week-1

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Hello world! 👋 I’m really happy to finally get this first post checked off my list. I've been putting it off for far too long. Let’s get to know each other! Who are you, and what is your software development background? I’m a software developer since around 4 years back. Been mostly working with frontend development in ReactJS but have also had some time playing around in NodeJS and and some mobile development with React Native on some side projects. Why did you want to complete this lesson? Diving more into Alchemy and the tutorials there has been in my todo list ever since i got the Alchemy - Web3 Early Student Card and they announced the Road to Web 3 series. I got super into joining in and helping out so i did a pull request to fix some issues in their old docs. Got a response from Albert that they was about to change the docs but he gave me a shoutout in Discord :D. I’ve played around doing many similar tutorials on creating an NFT but after watching the first tutorial for week 1 and hanging out on discord i really felt that apart from a great tutorial i also feel that this will scale really good as a learning platform which suits me perfectly as i will use it as a “base” to my web3 learning. When did you complete the project? I completed the first step of week 1 on Oct 28. Then I started looking at the challenge and got stuck reading a lot of documentation (which was actually funnier than i usually think they are^^) before i started to try out some solutions. On Oct 30 i deployed an update of my Smart Contract and verified it on goerli testnet with the solution to the challenge What technologies did you use? The initial code was generated using the Open Zeppelin wizard. Had never used it before but it was a super nice feature, especially from something like this tutorial. I edited some stuff and also wrote the code for the challenge using the the online Remix IDE. It was the first time i used Filebase, i’ve done similar tutorials using Pinata but Filebase was also a nice dev experience. I also hade to look around for some fauctes to get going. I ended up using one from Alchemy, Chainlink and one where you mint your own by doing some PoW. What did you enjoy about the tutorial? The way one could focus one the core stuff to get the assignment done was really great. Stuff like this could easily be overwhelming (especially on the first week/assignment). Getting some pointers on where to read up on some of the technologies used in the tutorial was also great (led me into some deep deep rabbit holes but that’s ok :P). How do you think you can use this technology to build useful applications in the future? What are some specific example applications? I think and hope regulations won’t block this tech for too long, there are so many smart people building on it already. Being a part of making it easier both for devs and for the great adoption of the masses later on is super exiting. I’m hoping i can build many silly projects and many great project so i can help others discover the possibilities with it. Who would you recommend this project to? Right now i’m trying to build everything so that my close friends can relate to it and find it interesting or funny. I also have some ideas to involve some web3 tech into inovation days at work where employees gets the change to hack some interesting stuff together. What is the Ethereum wallet address you would like to receive your PoK at? 0xda8Cc2dEfC647Bc7C870cb81a5b1d013F42e9e72 Also i’m super exited about the upcoming Alchemy University, have a look at the website and Twitter! 🔥 Here is the end result as a screenshot 😀 https://university.alchemy.com/ https://twitter.com/AlchemyLearn The deployed contract can be found here at Goerli testnet https://goerli.etherscan.io/address/0xce7d8b1eeb979b8dd9e176ea44ef20af6d101fbc Here you can have a look at it on OpenSea testnet https://testnets.opensea.io/assets/goerli/0x66e4d8c9259b11c4cadcf40430cdd62e96539f3b/0 That’s it for this time. Hope to be back with some thoughts on week 2 :)

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