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Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity

Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity

By : Chittoda
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Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity

Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity

2.9 (8)
By: Chittoda

Overview of this book

Solidity is among the most popular and contract-oriented programming languages used for writing decentralized applications (DApps) on Ethereum blockchain. If you’re looking to perfect your skills in writing professional-grade smart contracts using Solidity, this book can help. You will get started with a detailed introduction to blockchain, smart contracts, and Ethereum, while also gaining useful insights into the Solidity programming language. A dedicated section will then take you through the different Ethereum Request for Comments (ERC) standards, including ERC-20, ERC-223, and ERC-721, and demonstrate how you can choose among these standards while writing smart contracts. As you approach later chapters, you will cover the different smart contracts available for use in libraries such as OpenZeppelin. You’ll also learn to use different open source tools to test, review and improve the quality of your code and make it production-ready. Toward the end of this book, you’ll get to grips with techniques such as adding security to smart contracts, and gain insights into various security considerations. By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to write secure, production-ready smart contracts in Solidity from scratch for decentralized applications on Ethereum blockchain.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Section 1: Getting Started with Blockchain, Ethereum, and Solidity
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Section 2: Deep Dive into Development Tools
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Section 3: Mastering ERC Standards and Libraries
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Section 4: Design Patterns and Best Practices

Creating interfaces

You can define interfaces in Solidity using the interface keyword. These interfaces are very similar to abstract contracts, and they must not have any function definitions. They also have the following restrictions:

  • All the functions that are defined in the interface must have external visibility.
  • The constructor is not allowed.
  • An interface cannot have any state variables defined.
  • The interfaces cannot inherit from any other contracts or interfaces.

There are some differences between the Solidity 0.4.25 and 0.5.0 version interfaces. In version 0.4.25, you cannot define enum and struct. However, with version 0.5.0 onward, you can define them.

The following example shows an interface that's been defined in Solidity version 0.4.25, having a function declared without the body:

pragma solidity ^0.4.25;

interface ExampleInterface {

function transfer...

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