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Solidity Programming Essentials

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Solidity Programming Essentials

Overview of this book

Solidity is a contract-oriented language whose syntax is highly influenced by JavaScript, and is designed to compile code for the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Solidity Programming Essentials will be your guide to understanding Solidity programming to build smart contracts for Ethereum and blockchain from ground-up. We begin with a brief run-through of blockchain, Ethereum, and their most important concepts or components. You will learn how to install all the necessary tools to write, test, and debug Solidity contracts on Ethereum. Then, you will explore the layout of a Solidity source file and work with the different data types. The next set of recipes will help you work with operators, control structures, and data structures while building your smart contracts. We take you through function calls, return types, function modifers, and recipes in object-oriented programming with Solidity. Learn all you can on event logging and exception handling, as well as testing and debugging smart contracts. By the end of this book, you will be able to write, deploy, and test smart contracts in Ethereum. This book will bring forth the essence of writing contracts using Solidity and also help you develop Solidity skills in no time.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


Once again, this was a heavy chapter that focused primarily on functions, including the address functions and the pure, constant, and view functions. The address functions can be intimidating, especially when you consider their multiple variations and their relationship with the fallback functions. If you are implementing a fallback function, remember to pay special attention to testing, especially from a security point of view. You should also pay special attention when using low-level Solidity functions such as send, call, and transfer as they invoke the fallback function implicitly. Always try using contract functions that use ABI as it ensures that the proper function, along with its data types, is being called.

In the next chapter, we will dive deep into the world of events, logging, and exception handling in Solidity. Stay tuned!