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Solidity Programming Essentials. - Second Edition

By : Ritesh Modi
Book Image

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

Contract composition

Solidity supports contract composition. Composition refers to combining multiple contracts to create complex data structures and contracts. We have already seen numerous examples of contract composition before. Refer to the code snippet for creating contracts using the new keyword shown in the Using the new keyword section. In this example, the Client contract is composed of the HelloWorld contract. Here, HelloWorld is an independent contract and Client is a dependent contract. It is dependent on the HelloWorld contract for its completeness. It is a good practice to break down problems into multicontract solutions and compose them together using contract composition.