Undergraduate Course: Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers (UG) (INFR11238)
Course Outline
| School | School of Informatics |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course follows the delivery and assessment of Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers (INFR11144) exactly. Undergraduate students must register for this course, while MSc students must register for INFR11144 instead. |
| Course description |
This course follows the delivery and assessment of Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers (INFR11144) exactly. Undergraduate students must register for this course, while MSc students must register for INFR11144 instead.
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | As above. This course is open to full year Visiting Students only, as the course is delivered in Semester 1 and examined at the end of Semester 2. |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2022/23, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
78 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
100% coursework
Assignment 1: Interacting with a Distributed Ledger and Basic Principles (20%)
Assignment 2: Smart Contract Programming Part I (30%)
Assignment 3: Smart Contract Programming Part II (30%)
Assignment 4: Designing and deploying IT services using a distributed ledger (20%) |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Explain and Analyze protocols and systems involving multiple participants and their security properties
- Demonstrate the ability to think critically about cybersecurity
- Program smart contracts as part of scalable information technology services
- Analyse and evaluate smart contract code utilizing basic cryptographic primitives such as digital signatures and hash functions
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Reading List
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies by Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller, Steven Goldfeder. http://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu
The Bitcoin Backbone Protocol: Analysis and Applications, Juan Garay and Aggelos Kiayias and Nikos Leonardos. https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/765 |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Familiarity with cryptography, cyber security, decentralized systems, databases, open source software. |
| Keywords | bitcoin,distributed systems,cryptography,BDL |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Dimitris Karakostas
Tel:
Email: D.Karakostas@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Helen Tweedale
Tel: (0131 6)50 2692
Email: Helen.Tweedale@ed.ac.uk |
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