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Solidity Programming Essentials. A guide to building smart contracts and tokens using the widely used Solidity language - Second Edition

Solidity Programming Essentials. A guide to building smart contracts and tokens using the widely used Solidity language - Second Edition

Ritesh Modi

Ebook
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.
  • 1. Introduction to Blockchain, Ethereum, and Smart Contracts
  • 2. Installing Ethereum and Solidity
  • 3. Introducing Solidity
  • 4. Global variables and functions
  • 5. Expressions and control structure
  • 6. Writing Smart Contracts
  • 7. Functions, Modifiers, and Fallbacks
  • 8. Exceptions, Events and Logging
  • 9. Basics of Truffle and Unit Testing
  • 10. Debugging contracts
  • 11. Assembly Programming
  • 12. Upgradable Smart Contracts
  • 13. Writing Secure Contracts
  • 14. Writing Token Contracts
  • 15. Solidity Design Patterns
  • Title: Solidity Programming Essentials. A guide to building smart contracts and tokens using the widely used Solidity language - Second Edition
  • Author: Ritesh Modi
  • Original title: Solidity Programming Essentials. A guide to building smart contracts and tokens using the widely used Solidity language - Second Edition
  • ISBN: 9781803234793, 9781803234793
  • Date of issue: 2022-06-10
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_2t7a
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing