--- tags: ncd --- # Day 2 ## Writing web 3 > *To interface or not to interface? that is the question.* :construction: :construction: :construction: *Learn to write contracts that control money, identity, ownership among other data types.* ### Core Activities - **( a )** Complete two challenges here: http://bit.ly/near-sdk-as - `#1`. a scavenger hunt through several AssemblyScript projects to get you quickly oriented - `#2`. a debugging challenge to fix a few failing unit tests with broken contracts - **( b )** Write a basic contract like this one: http://bit.ly/near-sdk-as - `#3`. a development lifecycle challenge to guide you through deploying a contract - **( c )** Write a script in your favorite language that automates some of the tedious bits - compiling a contract - deploying (and optionally initializing) a contract - exercising contract methods ### Bonus Activities *If you have the time to look around the corner, here's a little more for you.* - [Scavenger Hunt Challenge #3](https://hackmd.io/RlvUkBbMSVWXueI8Tvs15w) ### Going Deeper *If you're feeling fearless, here's about as far as you might take this road in a day* - Review some of NEAR's convenience data structures: - [Rust](https://github.com/near-examples/collection-examples-rs) - [AssemblyScript](https://github.com/near-examples/collection-examples-as) - Review Fungible and Non-fungible Token contracts - [FT](https://github.com/near-examples/FT) - [NFT](https://github.com/near-examples/NFT) - review [Eugene's workshop](https://github.com/evgenykuzyakov/workshop) and related [berryclub](https://berryclub.io) [contracts](https://github.com/evgenykuzyakov/berryclub) --- > _To call methods, and methods, and methods, Signing transactions in this petty pace from day to day, To the last token of recorded crypto; And all our ledgers have hard forked On their way to a dusty death. Out, out, brief blockchain! web 3's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the internet, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by a hodler, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing._ > > *-- Willmoon Shakeschain*