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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

Contract global variables

Every contract has the following three global functions:

  • this: This represents the current contract and can be used from within a contract. It is a short form to refer to the current contract.

It can call any method within a contract as long as they are tagged as public or have external scope visibility, as shown next:

This.functionname(parameters)

It can be converted into an address type. This is generally required to call low-level functions such as transfer, send, and call on a target contract to either call a method or transfer some tokens. It also helps in distinguishing existing contracts from other contract variables. The usage of this is shown next:

Address(this).transfer(1 ether)
  • selfdestruct: This function accepts an address recipient argument. It destroys the current contract, sending its available funds to the given address, as shown next:
    Selfdestruct(0x5B38Da6a701c568545dCfcB03FcB875f56beddC4)
  • suicide: This...
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