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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

Installing and configuring Geth

Implementation of Ethereum nodes and clients is available in multiple languages, including Go, C++, Python, JavaScript, Java, and Ruby. The functionality or usability of these clients is the same across languages, and developers should choose the language implementation they are most comfortable with. This book uses the Go implementation known as Geth, which acts as an Ethereum client to connect to public and test networks. It is also used to create the mining and EVM (transaction nodes) for private networks. Geth is a command-line tool written in Go for creating a node and miners on a private chain. It can be installed on Windows, Linux, and Mac. Now, it's time to install Geth.

Installing Geth on macOS

Installation of Geth on macOS is quite straightforward. Mac has Homebrew as its package manager, and Geth can be installed using Homebrew by executing a couple of commands.

brew is the executable that is used for the installation of packages...