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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

Understanding integers

Integers help in storing numbers in contracts. Solidity provides the following two types of integer:

  • Signed integers: Signed integers can hold both negative and positive values.
  • Unsigned integers: Unsigned integers can hold positive values along with zero. They can also hold negative values apart from positive and zero.

There are multiple flavors of integers in Solidity for each of these types. Solidity provides the uint8 type to represent an 8-bit unsigned integer and thereon in multiples of 8 till it reaches 256. In short, there can be 32 different declarations of uint with different multiples of 8, such as uint8, uint16, and unit24, as far as the uint256 bit. Similarly, there are equivalent data types for integers, such as int8 and int16, up to int256.

Depending on requirements, an appropriately sized integer should be chosen – for example, when storing values between 0 and 255, uint8 is appropriate, and when storing values between...

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