TON Academy: Gamified Education

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Summary

A gamified platform that helps users learn the TON ecosystem with interactive lessons, animations, quizzes, coding tasks, and mini-games.

Context

The documentation on docs.ton.org is comprehensive but can overwhelm newcomers and developers transitioning from other ecosystems. Platforms like CryptoZombie.io, with over 400,000 users, address this challenge in EVM ecosystems through interactive, gamified learning.

TON Academy fills this gap in the TON ecosystem by offering interactive, gamified learning that simplifies onboarding, lowers the barrier to entry, and attracts developers from other ecosystems. This learning format is engaging and easily updatable, making it a lasting entry point for newcomers.

As TON plans to introduce features like TON Storage, TON Payment, and more, having a platform to teach these in an engaging and simplified way will be essential.

Learning goals

Consumers will gain a solid understanding of the TON ecosystem, including its tools, programming languages, and fundamentals, along with hands-on experience building and deploying dApps on TON

A few examples of courses/modules:

• Migration from Ethereum (Solidity) to TON
• Build a Game on TON (Beginner to Intermediate)
• The Roadmap to Mastering TMA on TON

References

• LearnMeABitcoin.com
  Beginner-friendly guides on Bitcoin and blockchain, similar to TON Academy’s educational approach.
• CryptoZombies.io
  A gamified learning platform for Ethereum, similar to TON Academy’s interactive lessons.
• Brilliant.com
  An online collection of interactive courses, similar to TON Academy’s learning style.

Estimate suggested reward

• Estimated Reward: ~$7,500 for platform development and 2 gamified courses
• Estimated Deadline: ~3 months

Completion Criteria

• Platform Development
  The project will be built using Next.js and structured to allow the easy addition and updating of courses by simply modifying course configuration files.
• Course Creation
  Design course materials, images, quizzes, and other elements, and integrate them into the platform by updating the course configuration files.

The platform could be hosted on TONAcademy.com, Academy.ton, or academy.ton.org.
In the future, user progress could be stored on-chain, with users receiving course completion badges as NFTs.

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Also, Ethereum.org has added gamified questions to its documentation, showcasing the value of interactive learning.