SI 486I Spring 2022

This is the archived website of SI 486I from the Spring 2022 semester. Feel free to browse around; you may also find more recent offerings at my teaching page.

Calendar for SI 486I Spring 2022

January 2022
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
26	27	28	29	30	31 New Year's Day (observed)	1 New Year's Day
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9 Week 1	10	11 Money as a medium of exchange Monday Schedule	12 Bitcoin overview	13 Lab 1: Getting started: VMs, JSON, and Hashing	14	15
16 Week 2	17 MLK Jr Day	18	19 Cryptographic hashing	20 Lab 2: Centralized chat-chain	21	22
23 Week 3	24 Cryptographic hashing	25	26 Cryptographic hashing	27 Lab 3: Caching blocks for a read-only node	28	29
30 Week 4	31 Overlapping Generations and Money is Memory	1	2 Overlapping Generations and Money is Memory	3 Lab 4: Updating to the longest path	4	5

February 2022
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
30 Week 4	31 Overlapping Generations and Money is Memory	1	2 Overlapping Generations and Money is Memory	3 Lab 4: Updating to the longest path	4	5
6 Week 5	7 Overlapping Generations and Money is Memory	8	9 Cryptographic puzzles and mining	10 Lab 5: Proof of work	11	12
13 Week 6	14 Cryptographic puzzles and mining	15	16 Cryptographic puzzles and mining	17 Catch-up day	18	19
20 Week 7	21 Washington's Birthday	22	23 Digital signatures and transactions 6wk Grades due	24 Lab 6: Signing messages	25	26
27 Week 8	28 Digital signatures and transactions	1	2 Digital signatures and transactions	3 Lab 7: Transactions	4	5

March 2022
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
27 Week 8	28 Digital signatures and transactions	1	2 Digital signatures and transactions	3 Lab 7: Transactions	4	5
6 Week 9	7 Digital signatures and transactions	8	9 Digital signatures and transactions	10 Midterm Exam	11 No-lunch Schedule	12
13 Spring Break	14 Spring Break	15 Spring Break	16 Spring Break	17 Spring Break	18 Spring Break	19 Spring Break
20 Week 10	21 Bitcoin in the real world	22	23 Bitcoin in the real world	24 Lab 8: Presentation practice	25	26
27 Week 11	28 Bitcoin in the real world	29	30 Alternative consensus mechanisms	31 Lab 9: Project 1 work time	1	2

April 2022
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
27 Week 11	28 Bitcoin in the real world	29	30 Alternative consensus mechanisms	31 Lab 9: Project 1 work time	1	2
3 Week 12	4 Alternative consensus mechanisms	5	6 Alternative consensus mechanisms	7 Lab 10: Using smart contracts on Ethereum	8	9
10 Week 13	11 Etheruum network and smart contracts	12 12wk Grades due	13 Etheruum network and smart contracts	14 Lab 11: Project 1 presentations	15	16
17 Week 14	18 Etheruum network and smart contracts	19	20 Etheruum network and smart contracts	21 Lab 12: Project 2 work time	22	23
24 Week 15	25 Contract enforcement and stablecoins	26	27 Contract enforcement and stablecoins	28 Lab 13: More Project 2 work time	29	30

May 2022
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
1 Week 16	2 Project 2 presentations	3	4 Project 2 presentations Capstone Day	5	6 Final Exams	7 Final Exams
8 Final Exams	9 Final Exams	10 Final Exams	11 Final Exams	12 Final Exams	13 Final Exams	14
15	16 Final Grades due	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27 Graduation	28
29	30 Memorial Day	31	1	2	3	4