You're reading from Solidity Programming Essentials A guide to building smart contracts and tokens using the widely used Solidity language

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803231181

Length 412 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Solidity

Tools

Blockchain

Concepts

Blockchain

Author (1):

Ritesh Modi

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: The Fundamentals of Solidity and Ethereum

2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Blockchain, Ethereum, and Smart Contracts FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Installing Ethereum and Solidity

4. Chapter 3: Introducing Solidity

5. Chapter 4: Global Variables and Functions

6. Chapter 5: Expressions and Control Structures

7. Part 2: Writing Robust Smart Contracts

8. Chapter 6: Writing Smart Contracts

9. Chapter 7: Solidity Functions, Modifiers, and Fallbacks

10. Chapter 8: Exceptions, Events, and Logging

11. Chapter 9: Basics of Truffle and Unit Testing

12. Chapter 10: Debugging Contracts

13. Part 3: Advanced Smart Contracts

14. Chapter 11: Assembly Programming

15. Chapter 12: Upgradable Smart Contracts

16. Chapter 13: Writing Secure Contracts

17. Chapter 14: Writing Token Contracts

18. Chapter 15: Solidity Design Patterns

19. Assessments

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