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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)

Working with struct and enum

There are several elementary types in solidity that can be used together to form various complex user-defined types. In this recipe, you will learn about two user-defined types in Solidity: struct and enum.

How to do it...

Let's create and work with various user-defined types using struct and enum.

Structs

Structs provide a way to define new types of solidity:

  1. Use the struct keyword for creating user-defined types in solidity:
struct Person { }
  1. Create a struct with a name and the associated properties inside it:
struct Person {
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