Overview
Disruptive IT Cameroon YouTube is a free archive of training lectures, numbered so they play through as a course. It is aimed at someone who wants to learn functional programming, a style of coding where programs are built from mathematical functions, or to pick up cryptography and how digital ledgers work from the ground up. The lessons are screen-shared slides with voice-over. Lengths vary sharply: most of the numbered segments run under six minutes, while the Haskell lectures and the hackathon recordings run from forty minutes to over three hours.
The channel belongs to Disruptive IT Cameroon, an unincorporated organisation in Douala that provides education, training and consulting in distributed ledgers, artificial intelligence and functional programming, and describes itself as a partner of Wada1. Wada runs technology hubs across West and Central Africa2. The Cardano-facing lessons treat Haskell as the groundwork for Plutus, the language used to write Cardano smart contracts, which are small programs that run on a blockchain3. Alongside the courses sit close-out videos for Project Catalyst proposals the team submitted and recordings of community events, including four interviews from a Cardano Constitutional Workshop. Uploads have stopped, so what sits here is a back catalogue rather than a running series.
Key Features
- A programming course that assumes nothing. The Haskell series opens with what programming is and the mathematics of sets and functions, then builds through types, type classes and higher-order functions.
- Cryptography taught piece by piece. Separate lessons cover scrambling a message with a shared password, public-key encryption, hashing, digital signatures and the problem of distributing keys, with a practical exercise closing each half of the sequence.
- A ground-up explanation of distributed ledgers. One numbered series defines centralised, decentralised and distributed networks, then works through blocks, transactions, wallets and consensus before naming any specific blockchain.
- A course on identity you hold yourself. Lessons set out why the internet has no built-in identity layer, then explain decentralised identifiers, the mechanism that lets a person carry credentials without a company vouching for them each time.
- Two languages across the catalogue. The distributed ledger and Haskell material is in English; the identity and access course and the cryptography course were recorded in French.
What to Expect
Presentation is plain. Titles are largely numbers and short phrases, and the channel's own description names its subject areas without saying which video belongs to which course, so the video list tells you little about what a given series contains. Following the numbering within a series is the practical way in.
The archive is not growing, which makes it reference material rather than a channel to subscribe to. The cryptography and distributed ledger series explain fundamentals rather than tooling. The Cardano-specific lessons are more product-tied: the identity course is built around Atala PRISM and the Haskell track points toward Plutus.
Beyond the videos, Wada publishes the matching written curriculum openly as a five-module repository, running from a getting-started section through to testing4. The team's own code sits on a public GitHub account under the same name, including repositories tied to projects it put to Project Catalyst, Cardano's community funding programme5. For channels that are still publishing, see the rest of the Cardano development channels.
