Blockchain Simulation: A Web Application for IT Education
Xingyu Chen, Zexi Xing, Bishwodeep Karki, Yimin Li, Zhengxin Chen · 2021
Although blockchain technology is gaining popularity, there is no clear guideline or widely available education tool for amateurs to learn this new technology. In this research project, we build a web-based simulation to serve as an educational tool on blockchain technology. As a simulative web application, it is to be used to help IT students (particularly computer science students) understand the basic structure of blockchain and why it can be considered as a decentralized system. We describe theoretical aspects and architecture of the developed web application, and present sample execution to explain how it works.