smoothify lesson 1 intro; cleanup punctuation

Author: wolovim

pages/lessons/projects/1.mdx

@@ -10,24 +10,37 @@ import { LessonHeader } from '../../../components/mdx/LessonHeader'
 
 ## What are we building?
 
-### Where are we going with it? Web what? Smart contract?
-
 We’re going to build a **smart contract**, but what on Jupiter is a smart
 contract? And what on Earth would we use one for? Well, you wouldn’t find a
 smart contract on either Jupiter, or Earth, and although you may be grounded to
 the latter, you are going to deploy yours on a **blockchain**. Not a real
 blockchain, well not at first. Hang on!
 
+Let's pause here for a couple questions to give you a taste of what's to come
+and give yourself a chance to test what you already know.
+
 <SideDrawer buttonText="Warm-up questions" title="Warm-up questions">
     <Question question="question-1" />
     <Question question="question-2" />
 </SideDrawer>
 <br/>
 <br/>
-And now let's check if we were right :)
 
-<SideDrawer buttonText="A what chain?!">
-A blockchain has quite a few layers to let function, but it basically gives us a place to do computation, and store information. So in one sense it functions as a database. Think about this. To get access to all of the information on a traditional database you need permission from a higher authority, right? Access to information on a public blockchain is permission**less**. Not only can we read the information on it, but anyone can also write information to it. And that’s where we come in and get this all started with our *smart contract*. And what is also different to a traditional database is that once the information goes onto this blockchain, it stays there forever, and ever, and ever….thanks to cryptography!!
+How was that? No stress if the answers didn't come naturally. We're here to fill
+in the gaps! If you're interested in more context before moving along to the
+lesson, check out the explainers below.
+
+<SideDrawer buttonText="What is a blockchain?">
+A blockchain has quite a few layers to let function, but it basically gives us
+a place to do computation, and store information. So in one sense it functions
+as a database. Think about this: to get access to all of the information on a
+traditional database you need permission from a higher authority, right? Access
+to information on a public blockchain is permission**less**. Not only can we read
+the information on it, but anyone can also write information to it. And that’s
+where we come in and get this all started with our *smart contract*. And what is
+also different to a traditional database is that once the information goes onto
+this blockchain, it stays there forever, and ever, and ever... thanks to
+cryptography!
 
 But what is the information that is kept on this chain? Wait. Why a chain? Well
 basically transactions, often, but not always, financial, are made and recorded
@@ -38,7 +51,7 @@ _money trail_. And this was one of the main intentions of blockchains.
 Transparency. There are ever-growing use cases for the types of transactions,
 financial and non-financial. Let’s move on. The blocks are secured to each other
 with cryptography. A similar type of encryption that is used to secure the
-Signal or Telegram apps on your smartphone…..(any other examples???) If someone
+Signal or Telegram apps on your smartphone. (Any other examples?) If someone
 did try to change any information on the chain, the alarm bells would go off.
 
 So how is all this permission**lessness** possible? Can’t someone shut this
@@ -59,7 +72,7 @@ over the whole network, so there is no higher authority.
 So we have what is like a global computer which is permissionless, transparent
 and distributed, and as long as 66% of the nodes are running, the blockchain can
 keep on going quite safely, which makes it almost completely censorship
-resistant. Think about that for a second. And it gets better…..
+resistant. Think about that for a second. And it gets better...
 
 Really? What’s so special about all of this? Well until recently, we only
 transferred data on the internet. Yes, you could send money too by using some
@@ -68,13 +81,13 @@ advent of cryptocurrencies we can now send _digital_ value… permissionlessly.
 That's quite a thing! In the early days of crypto we could only transact with
 digital tokens such as BTC and then ETH and soon later, with thousands of
 different coins. But new ideas continue to emerge and we’re going to be building
-a few of them!!!
+a few of them!
 
 The distributed sharing of value on blockchain has opened up further development
 of networks that for example facilitates the distribution of storage, where,
 like running a blockchain node, people can use their home computer’s storage
 device for storing other people’s data, and earn a bit of money in return.
-That’s where your NFTs (will) live!! Many, many more internet services, or
+That’s where your NFTs (will) live! Many, many more internet services, or
 protocols that have been centralized until now have emerged to complement and
 add extra functionality to all of the above, and many completely new protocols
 are being added really quickly! So you are going to hear words like
@@ -83,7 +96,7 @@ to a stage of internet evolution where we can own our personal data again and be
 able to transfer value without worrying about a middleman saying if we can or
 can’t.
 
-This is what we call Web3. Welcome!!
+This is what we call Web3. Welcome!
 
 So back to the smart contract. What the hell is it? It’s a piece of computer
 code that will do whatever we programme it to do. And once we have written and
@@ -113,7 +126,7 @@ easier to remember alias for their address e.g.
 
 </SideDrawer>
 <br/>
-<SideDrawer buttonText="A bit more info on smart contracts...">
+<SideDrawer buttonText="What is a smart contract?">
 
 A smart contract, as it suggests is a contract, but written into computer code
 and stored and executed on a blockchain. What does it let us do? In simple
@@ -167,7 +180,7 @@ blockchain stack. Since it has a lot of the features needed to run a smart
 contract, it let’s us get started with learning how to develop one and see how
 it would work on a live network and also some of the things a user would
 experience on a front end application. Experienced developers still use it too
-because it is so handy for a lot of things. It’s a pretty nifty tool!! It has:
+because it is so handy for a lot of things. It’s a pretty nifty tool! It has:
 
 A `file explorer`: a place to write and store your smart contracts and files of
 code as you work with them online.
@@ -652,7 +665,7 @@ Compiler sidebar icon.
 
     }
     ```
-    
+
 </SideDrawer>
 
 Now we are ready to deploy our contract. We can now head to the Deploy & Run
@@ -703,9 +716,12 @@ If you look closely, inside the “logs” part, our smart contract predicted a
 What if you try out setting the message to `gm` and look at the logs again. Can
 you see the magical spell that is being cast here?
 
-![Genie Girl holds Ethereum Crystal Ball](/assets/lessons/1/img_11.png)
+<br />
+<p align="center">
+    <img src="/assets/lessons/1/img_11.png" width="300" alt="Genie Girl holds Ethereum Crystal Ball" />
+</p>
 
-Before you go ahead and tell us: **what your future in web3 is**, have a check
+Before you go ahead and tell us **what your future in web3 is**, have a check
 on what you didn’t know a little while ago, and what you know now!
 
 <Quiz quiz="quiz-1"/>

utils/quizzes/quiz-1.json

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
       "question": "Where do the values for event parameters get stored?",
       "options": [
         {
-          "answer": "In the transaction data"
+          "answer": "In the block data"
         },
         {
           "answer": "In transaction logs",
@@ -33,17 +33,17 @@
       ]
     },
     {
-      "question": "What can we use a smart contract for?",
+      "question": "What can we use an Ethereum smart contract for?",
       "options": [
         {
-          "answer": "Store or transfer value or services without the need of a central authority",
+          "answer": "Storing or transfering value without the need of a central authority",
           "correct": true
         },
         {
-          "answer": "Make a breakfast"
+          "answer": "Making breakfast"
         },
         {
-          "answer": "Verifying the authenticity of documents and information."
+          "answer": "Sending untraceable transactions"
         }
       ]
     }