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Solidity Programming Essentials

Solidity Programming Essentials - Second Edition

By : Modi
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Solidity Programming Essentials

Solidity Programming Essentials

3.6 (8)
By: 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

Chapter 7: Solidity Functions, Modifiers, and Fallbacks

Solidity is maturing and providing advanced programming constructs so that users can write better smart contracts. This chapter is dedicated to some of the most important smart contract constructs, such as functions, modifiers, and fallbacks.

Functions are the most important element of a smart contract after state variables. It is functions that help to create transactions and implement custom logic in Ethereum. There are various types of functions, which will be discussed in depth in this chapter.

Modifiers are special functions that help in writing more readily available and modular smart contracts. Fallbacks are a concept unique to contract-based programming languages, and they are executed when a function call does not match any existing declared method in a contract. Finally, every function has visibility attached to it that affects its availability to the external caller, other contracts, and contracts in inheritance...

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