The introduction of the Udemy course ended with installation of Mist and a text editor environment for Solidity. Simple right? Apparently wrong.

First things first, I installed Mist... then it became painfully obvious that there had to be a better way to sync the testnet.

I was overcome with joy.

HOWEVER... after 4 hours I realized, I had synced the mainnet

So now, the wait continues. I am fast syncing the testnet, but wifi now appears to be an issue. Hopefully this will all finish up tonight. Until then, cheers and Steem on!