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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

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

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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

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Index

Chapter 3. Introducing Solidity

From this chapter, we will embark on a journey: learning the Solidity language. The previous two chapters introduced blockchains, Ethereum, and their toolsets. Some important concepts related to blockchains, which are essential for having a better understanding and writing efficient code in Solidity, were also discussed. There are multiple languages that target EVM. Some of them are deprecated and others are used with varying degrees of acceptance. Solidity is by far the most popular language for EVM. From this chapter onward, the book will focus on Solidity and its concepts, as well as constructs to help write efficient smart contracts.

In this chapter, we will jump right into understanding Solidity, its structure, data types, and variables. We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

Solidity and Solidity files
Structure of a contract
Data types in Solidity
Storage and memory data locations
Literals
Integers
Boolean
The byte data type
Arrays
Structure of an...

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