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Ethereum Cookbook

By : Manoj P R
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Ethereum Cookbook

By: Manoj P R

Overview of this book

Ethereum and Blockchain will change the way software is built for business transactions. Most industries have been looking to leverage these new technologies to gain efficiencies and create new business models and opportunities. The Ethereum Cookbook covers various solutions such as setting up Ethereum, writing smart contracts, and creating tokens, among others. You’ll learn about the security vulnerabilities, along with other protocols of Ethereum. Once you have understood the basics, you’ll move on to exploring various design decisions and tips to make your application scalable and secure. In addition to this, you’ll work with various Ethereum packages such as Truffle, Web3, and Ganache. By the end of this book, you’ll have comprehensively grasped the Ethereum principles and ecosystem.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Writing functions in solidity

A function is a unit of code designed to do a particular task within a larger contract. In this recipe, you will learn about creating and interacting with functions in solidity.

How to do it...

  1. Create a function in solidity with the function keyword to perform a specific task. The following example demonstrates how we can create a simple function:
contract Test {
function functionName() {
// Do something
}
}
  1. Create another function to accept input parameters. These parameters can be declared just like variables. The following example accepts two parameters of type uint:

contract Test {
function add(uint _a, uint _b) public {
// Do something
}
}
  1. Define output parameters...