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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

Understanding the do...while loop

The do...while loop is very similar to the while loop. The general form of a do...while loop is as follows:

Declare and Initialize a counter
do {
Execute the instructions here
Increment the value of counter
} while(check the value of counter using an expression or 
  condition)

There is a subtle difference between the while and do...while loops. Note that the condition in do...while is placed toward the end of the loop instructions. The instructions in the while loop are not executed at all if the condition is false; however, the instruction in the do...while loop gets executed at least once before the condition is evaluated. So, if you want to execute the instructions at least once, the do...while loop should be preferred to the while loop. Take a look at the following code snippet on the same subject:

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity >=0.7.0 <0.9.0;
contract DowhileLoop {
    
  ...