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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

Using literals

Solidity provides the use of literals for assignments to variables. Literals do not have names; they are the values themselves. Variables can change their values during program execution, but a literal retains the same value throughout. Take a look at the following examples of various literals:

  • Examples of integer literals are 1, 10, 1,000, -1, and -100.
  • Examples of string literals are "Ritesh" and 'Modi'. String literals can be in single or double quotation marks.
  • Examples of address literals are 0xca35b7d915458ef540ade6068dfe2f44e8fa733c and 0x1111111111111111111111111111111111111111.
  • Hexadecimal literals are prefixed with the hex keyword. An example of a hexadecimal literal is hex"1A2B3F".

Solidity supports decimal literals with the use of the aa dot – examples include 4.5 and 0.2.

This concludes the details about declaring and using literal values within smart contracts. Now, it's time to move...

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