Authors: Kevin Delmolino, Mitchell Arnett, A. Kosba, Andrew K. Miller, E. Shi

Venue: Bitcoin (2016)

Abstract: We document our experiences in teaching smart contract programming to undergraduate students at the University of Maryland, the first pedagogical attempt of its kind. Since smart contracts deal directly with the movement of valuable currency units between contractual parties, security of a contract program is of paramount importance. Our lab exposed numerous common pitfalls in designing safe and secure smart contracts. We document several typical classes of mistakes students made, suggest ways to fix/avoid them, and