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Solidity Programming Essentials

Solidity Programming Essentials

By : Modi
3.6 (8)
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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 3: Introducing Solidity

From this chapter, we will embark on a journey – learning the Solidity language. The previous two chapters introduced blockchains, Ethereum, and related toolsets. Some important concepts related to blockchains, which are essential for having a better understanding and writing efficient code in Solidity, were also discussed. There are multiple languages that target the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Some of them are deprecated and others are used with varying degrees of acceptance. Solidity is by far the most popular language for EVM. From this chapter onward, the book will focus on Solidity and its concepts, as well as constructs to help write efficient smart contracts.

In this chapter, we will jump right into understanding Solidity, and its structure, data types, and variables. We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Solidity and Solidity files
  • The structure of a contract
  • Data types in Solidity
  • Storage and...
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