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Solidity Programming Essentials

You're reading from  Solidity Programming Essentials

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788831383
Pages 222 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
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 Structures 6. Writing Smart Contracts 7. Functions, Modifiers, and Fallbacks 8. Exceptions, Events, and Logging 9. Truffle Basics and Unit Testing 10. Debugging Contracts 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Solidity and Solidity files


Solidity is a programming language that is very close to JavaScript. Similarities between JavaScript and C can be found within Solidity. Solidity is a statically-typed, case-sensitive, and object-oriented programming (OOP) language. Although it is object-oriented, it supports limited objected orientation features. What this means is that variable data types should be defined and known at compile time. Functions and variables should be written in OOP same way as they are defined. In Solidity, Cat is different from CAT, cat, or any other variation of cat. The statement terminator in Solidity is the semicolon: ;.

Solidity code is written in Solidity files that have the extension .sol. They are human-readable text files that can be opened as text files in any editor including Notepad.

A Solidity file is composed of the following four high-level constructs:

  • Pragma
  • Comments
  • Import
  • Contracts/library/interface

Pragma

Pragma is generally the first line of code within any Solidity...

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