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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

Geth


Implementation of Ethereum nodes and clients is available in multiple languages, including Go, C++, Python, JavaScript, Java, Ruby, and more. The functionality or usability of these clients are the same across languages, and developers should choose an implementation they are most comfortable with. This book uses the Go implementation known as Geth, which acts as an Ethereum client to connect to public and test networks. It is also used to create the mining and EVM (transaction nodes) for private networks. Geth is a command-line tool written in Go for creating a node and miners on a private chain. It can be installed on Windows, Linux, and Mac as well. Now, its time to install Geth.

Installing Geth on Windows

The first step in creating a private Ethereum network is to download and install Geth (go-ethereum) tool.

In this section, the steps to download and install Geth on Windows are as follows:

  1. Geth can be downloaded from the https://ethereum.github.io/go-ethereum/downloads/ page. It is...
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