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Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity

By : Jitendra Chittoda
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Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity

By: Jitendra Chittoda

Overview of this book

Solidity is among the most popular and contract-oriented programming languages used for writing decentralized applications (DApps) on Ethereum blockchain. If you’re looking to perfect your skills in writing professional-grade smart contracts using Solidity, this book can help. You will get started with a detailed introduction to blockchain, smart contracts, and Ethereum, while also gaining useful insights into the Solidity programming language. A dedicated section will then take you through the different Ethereum Request for Comments (ERC) standards, including ERC-20, ERC-223, and ERC-721, and demonstrate how you can choose among these standards while writing smart contracts. As you approach later chapters, you will cover the different smart contracts available for use in libraries such as OpenZeppelin. You’ll also learn to use different open source tools to test, review and improve the quality of your code and make it production-ready. Toward the end of this book, you’ll get to grips with techniques such as adding security to smart contracts, and gain insights into various security considerations. By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to write secure, production-ready smart contracts in Solidity from scratch for decentralized applications on Ethereum blockchain.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Blockchain, Ethereum, and Solidity
5
Section 2: Deep Dive into Development Tools
9
Section 3: Mastering ERC Standards and Libraries
16
Section 4: Design Patterns and Best Practices

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at defining and creating a Solidity contract. We looked at creating custom modifiers for the functions, understood the different types of functions you can define inside a contract to architect your contract behavior, learned how to create and emit events for logging purposes, and dug deeper into Solidity inheritance by creating interfaces and abstract contracts. We also learned how to write custom user-defined libraries and use them in our contracts. 

In terms of the Solidity language, we have covered all the topics that you are required to know about in order to write a basic Solidity contract. These topics cover almost 99% of the language's features, although there are ways to write assembly language blocks in Solidity as well. However, this is an advanced topic that you should take a look at in your own time. Assembly language usage...