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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

Modifiers

Modifiers are another concept unique to Solidity. They help in modifying the behavior of a function. Let's try to understand this with the help of an example. The following code does not use modifiers; in this contract, two state variables, two functions, and a constructor are defined.

One of the state variables stores the address of the account deploying the contract. Within the constructor, the msg.sender global variable is used to input the account address in the owner state variable. The following functions check whether the caller is the same as the account that deployed the contract. If it is, the function code is executed; otherwise, it ignores the rest of the code.

While this code will work, it can be made better both in terms of readability and manageability. This is where modifiers can help. In this example, the checks are made using the if conditional statements. Later, in the next chapter, we will see how to use new Solidity constructs, such as require...

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