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Solidity Programming Essentials - Second Edition

By : Ritesh Modi
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Solidity Programming Essentials - Second Edition

By: Ritesh 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)
1
Part 1: The Fundamentals of Solidity and Ethereum
7
Part 2: Writing Robust Smart Contracts
13
Part 3: Advanced Smart Contracts

Reviewing problematic smart contracts

Before we write upgradable smart contracts, let's write a simple smart contract that we would like to update in the future as part of enhancements. Using this smart contract, we will understand the problems encountered when we want to upgrade it. The smart contract is called a Bank contract, with a couple of function implementations to debit and/or credit an account. It maintains a global state for each account along with its balance in a mapping data type. Since the mapping has public visibility, a getter function is intrinsically generated to access the account balance. There is also a constructor that would initially assign a specified balance to the bank's address. Since the bank is deploying this contract, the value of msg.sender in the constructor will have the value of the bank's address:

// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0
pragma solidity >=0.7.0 <0.9.0
contract Bank {
    
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