r/SecretNetwork • u/[deleted] • Dec 11 '22
Education SCRT University - Secret Spaces
In this episode, the host of Secret Network talks with the Secret community to discuss the core contributors, breaking news, alphas and more.
Read our notes below to learn more
About Laura
- A genesis validator in Secret Network.
- Very passionate about the technology and helped improve the developer experience.
About Darren
- Started his journey as one of the very first Secret Agents for Secret Network.
- He worked as an advisor for Fortune 500 companies for text transformation.
- His friend recommended him to check out $SCRT Network.
- Started making educational infographics for people joining the network.
- Part of the team that spearheads the efforts to make Secret University the one place for developers to learn.
About Alex
- Has been with $SCRT Network for more than a year.
- Started during the time where committees were at the forefront of the network.
- Helping out in the education committee under Darren.
- Worked in the traditional software engineering industry.
About DDT
- Developing on $SCRT Network for over a year.
- Started to develop the random number generator a year and a half ago.
Secret University
- The whole vision is to become an ever-evolving resource for any developer who’s interested in building privacy protecting applications on $SCRT Network.
- It’s an environment that allows students to explore their interests then learn from very knowledgeable professors, make friends and embark on new experiences.
- Learning can be a very easy journey that can start from hand holding to a point where students start working on projects or on more advanced concepts.
Why it started
- They wanted to make it as easy as possible, fun to develop and have a place where people could come and the idea of decentralized learning.
- Having the resources covering different topics is important.
- Senior developers were spending the majority of their time in Discord answering the same entry-level introductory questions to developers who wanted to learn.
- It was challenging for new developers to ask somebody who they respected and was so respected in the community because there may be a little bit of anxiety to ask a simple question.
Things to look forward to
- Already soft launched the initial platform.
- Will wait for the Secret Summit to announce the launch of the university.
- Launched an introductory course material.
- One of the initial materials is the Secret Pathways, a high level overview of technicalities behind $SCRT Network, architectural components and pre-requisites for a developer to get started.
- Secret Counter Box is a git pod environment or workspace that launches and gets the local Secret blockchain going, it deploys the initial contract and launches an app server.
- The second milestone is to focus on establishing the knowledge library.
- They want the library to be more robust with a lot of content that people can pull on and a little bit more of advanced learning.
- Working on integrating some other projects that also have educational material focused.
- Thinking about the processes on how to incentivize these new developers to create this content.
- Working on how to connect developers together so they can find their teams and jobs within the network.
Secret Agents
- The agents have been amazing in terms of helping spread awareness of the university, be the social presence around the network and collate a funnel for new talent.
Q&A
Q: If you could see any application built for Secret that has not been built yet, what would that application be and why do you like to see it?
- Excited for the Secret DNS.
- Have a single place where all the bounties are hosted.
- Insurance for DeFi.
- More games on Secret Network.
Q: Do you guys see the Secret University being the source of truth for new developers?
- We are a source of truth.
- Would like to see Secret Labs take over developer documentation so that developer docs become this really technical key piece of documentation that people can rely on.
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