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Solidity Programming Essentials

Solidity Programming Essentials - Second Edition

By : Ritesh Modi
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Solidity Programming Essentials

Solidity Programming Essentials

3.6 (8)
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)
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Part 1: The Fundamentals of Solidity and Ethereum
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Part 2: Writing Robust Smart Contracts
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Part 3: Advanced Smart Contracts

The byte data type

A byte refers to 8-bit signed integers. Everything in memory is stored in bits consisting of binary values – 0 and 1. Solidity also provides the byte data type to store information in binary format. Generally, programming languages have a single data type for representing bytes. However, Solidity has multiple flavors of the byte type. It provides data types that range from bytes1 to bytes32 inclusive, representing varying byte lengths, as required. These are called fixed-sized byte arrays and are implemented as value types. The bytes1 data type represents 1 byte, and bytes2 represents 2 bytes. The default value for byte is 0x00, and it gets initialized with this value. Solidity also has a byte type that is an alias of bytes1.

A byte can be assigned byte values in hexadecimal format, as follows:

bytes1 aa = 0x65;

A byte can be assigned integer values in decimal format, as follows:

bytes1 bb = 10;

A byte can be assigned negative integer values...

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