# EPF Week 1 Update (NC Navie Chan)

## General

I come from a software/CS background and has minimum exposure to blockchain development. Heard about the fellowship program a week prior, joined the office hour call and decided to hop in.

Since I am employed full time, I plan to dedicate most of myweekday night and weekend on this.

## Goal
- Refresh knowledge on Ethereum
- Have general understanding of each project on proejct list
- Research more on projects that I feel interested (ie. Background, current state of development etc.)

## Refresh knowledge on Ethereum
My understanding of Ethereum hasn't been updated since I left school, there has been a lot of changes and I want to relearn the whole thing from ground up.
Cohort repo has an excellenet reading list. I read most of them + documentations from ethereum.org + random articles I googled.
Here are some that I find particularly useful:
- https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/nodes-and-clients/
- https://www.coindesk.com/learn/ethereum-nodes-and-clients-a-complete-guide/
- https://takenobu-hs.github.io/downloads/ethereum_evm_illustrated.pdf
- https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/11/15/merkling-in-ethereum

## Project research
After getting a grasp of every project on the [list](https://github.com/eth-protocol-fellows/cohort-three/blob/master/projects/project-ideas.md), I have narrowed it down to 2 projects that I am interested in:
- Light Client
- CL Reward API

Will dive deeper on these two topics before deciding which one to work on next week

## Next Week
- Will reach out to mentors from Light Client and CL Reward API to know more about the current progress of development
- Reach out to peers who are in the cohort with similar interest in these two projects
- Decide which of the two projects to work on