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February 2024 Newsletter
March 4, 2024 - written by Roland BOLE (Instructor)
This edition of the #icAcademy newsletter includes a summary of the latest blog
posts, the announcement of the new release feature, some platform updates, a
further announcement of a new free quiz, and an update of our course: "Master
Deployments of Static Websites on the Internet Computer".
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Hello again 👋 and welcome to this newsletter. We are pleased to present our
monthly updates on IC Academy activities.


LET US RECAP

Wow, what a month! We did a lot, let us summarise it.


ARTICLES

In this section we would like to give you a summary of the latest articles, in
case you have missed it. All of them are starter kits to help you get up and
running with the Internet Computer.

Don’t forget, all starter kits are available on our blog
blog.icacademy.at/blogs/starterKit.

⚡ Alpine.js on the Internet Computer
In this article you will learn how you can get up and running with Alpine.js on
the Internet Computer.
blog.icacademy.at


The month started with a clean starter kit about Alpine.js. It demonstrates the
classic sayHelloTo function, with a form and a simple spinner functionality.
This article contains also a video on how you can use the template.

⚡ Angular on the Internet Computer
In this article you will learn how to use Angular 17 to interact with the
Internet Computer.
blog.icacademy.at


The second starter kit of this month - a great one - was Angular on the Internet
Computer. This is something I personally have worked on for a while and
therefore I am very proud to share it with two possible ways to work with
Angular 17. The repository contains two branches / solutions:

 1. Solution 1 with .env file and custom-webpack
 2. Solution 2 with Angular environment implementation

⚡ SolidJS on the Internet Computer
In this article you will learn how to use SolidJS to interact with the Internet
Computer.
blog.icacademy.at


And last but not least, SolidJS. This starter kit seems to be my favourite for
further work. I will dive deeper into it and see how SolidJSs performance can
improve the user experience for applications on the Internet Computer.


RELEASES

Releases are a new feature on the blog. The aim is to improve the starter kits
and the upcoming code-lab examples with different Github releases for a project.
With multiple versions for a repository we can provide a better learning
experience, especially for beginners.

Imagine you have a starting point for the setup and the code-lab describes a
problem for you to solve. At the end, you can check your solution by checking
out the final solution proposal. That is the idea behind the releases.

Checkout our latest release for the SolidJS starter kit to get an idea.

⚡ Release 1.0.0
from the Starter Kit: SolidJS on the Internet Computer
blog.icacademy.at



PLATFORM UPDATES

The blog.icAcademy.at project is also an experiment to see how and what it means
to run a serious project directly on-chain.

Maybe some people believe that a project on the Internet Computer must be rocket
science like a new decentralised exchange (DEX), a non-fungible token (NFT)
trading platform or a project that combines Bitcoin and Ethereum in a simple
application.

I do not think so, because running an application in AWS, Google, Vercel or any
other centralised platform is our daily business. But, running the same
application independently is what makes the Internet Computer so interesting. If
we talk about decentralised infrastructure, then this project tries it out.

In the coming months I will give more insights on topics like:

 * What does it cost to run a project like this on-chain?
 * What does this mean for the development?
 * What are the practical aspects of such a project?
 * And similar questions.

The blog is running with Astro as a static site for now. Currently, we have a
very good rating on Google’s PageSpeed. Nevertheless, we must continue to
improve it gradually.


FREE QUIZZES

This month we have published a new quiz Master Internet Computer Basics. This
quiz contains five sections about the basics of the Internet Computer. On the
quiz main page you can also find all references needed to master it (see
references on the quiz page).

Accept the challenge, learn and test your limits, unlock your potential 💪.

⚡ Train yourself with our free quizzes
Grab a cup of coffee and test your knowledge with our free quiz: Master Internet
Computer Basics
blog.icacademy.at



COMMUNITY - COURSE USAGE

This month again, the number of attendees of our course Master Deployments of
Static Websites on the Internet Computer has grown with participants from all
over the world.

You are the best 👍 and motivate us every day to provide more useful articles
and quizzes to master your transition from Web2 to Web3.

Express an Apology

We have to express an apology because currently we do not have all countries in
the world listed in the attendees profile. It depends on the platform, VERIABLE,
we use to host our courses. VERIABLE is an EU based company and initially
focused on European countries. In the foreseeable future we are happy that we
will be able to offer more countries selectable for attendees. In the meantime,
simply choose a country next to you.

Last month, there was also an update of the course content and on the underlying
project template. In module 3 “Development and Deployment of a Website on the
Internet Computer”, chapter “Deploy and Test your Site Locally” we have removed
step 3 because it is no longer needed with the current dfx version (0.17.0). We
have also updated the project template on Github with the latest npm packages.

You are so powerful

We would like to thank all course participants again, you are so powerful, we
are very proud of you for taking this course. Those who have not yet completed
the course 100%: Finalise the course and secure your course certificate.

We would like to invite all participants to join our OpenChat community channel.
All updates are posted there and in the medium term this channel will be the
first place for information dissemination.

⚡ Join our community on OpenChat
OpenChat is a fully featured chat application running end-to-end on the Internet
Computer blockchain.
oc.app


Thanks for reading and feedback is always welcome.

Enjoying our content? Do not forget to forward and share it with your friends!

Best Regards
BOLE Roland

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