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Solidity Programming Essentials

Solidity Programming Essentials

By : Modi
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Solidity Programming Essentials

Solidity Programming Essentials

3.6 (8)
By: Modi

Overview of this book

Solidity is a high-level language for writing smart contracts, and the syntax has large similarities with JavaScript, thereby making it easier for developers to learn, design, compile, and deploy smart contracts on large blockchain ecosystems including Ethereum and Polygon among others. This book guides you in understanding Solidity programming from scratch. The book starts with step-by-step instructions for the installation of multiple tools and private blockchain, along with foundational concepts such as variables, data types, and programming constructs. You’ll then explore contracts based on an object-oriented paradigm, including the usage of constructors, interfaces, libraries, and abstract contracts. The following chapters help you get to grips with testing and debugging smart contracts. As you advance, you’ll learn about advanced concepts like assembly programming, advanced interfaces, usage of recovery, and error handling using try-catch blocks. You’ll also explore multiple design patterns for smart contracts alongside developing secure smart contracts, as well as gain a solid understanding of writing upgradable smart concepts and data modeling. Finally, you’ll discover how to create your own ERC20 and NFT tokens from scratch. By the end of this book, you will be able to write, deploy, and test smart contracts in Ethereum.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Part 1: The Fundamentals of Solidity and Ethereum
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Part 2: Writing Robust Smart Contracts
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Part 3: Advanced Smart Contracts

Chapter 15: Solidity Design Patterns

Solidity is a contract-based language. You might wonder what a language has to do with entity modeling. On the face of it, it does not sound right; however, after security, entity modeling is probably one of the most important activities for writing smart contracts. But why is entity modeling an important exercise for smart contracts? To understand this question, we must understand the purpose of smart contracts. Smart contracts comprise two important facets:

  1. Entities
  2. Logic

Data stored in smart contracts is stored permanently within Ethereum storage. The use of storage comes with the cost of reading and writing to it. It is for this reason that it is very important to store optimal data that is necessary for the functioning of the smart contract and use case. In this chapter, we will understand how entities should be modeled for smart contracts, the different data types used for storing data, the read and write patterns, the redundancy...

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