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Learn Ethereum

You're reading from   Learn Ethereum Build your own decentralized applications with Ethereum and smart contracts

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789954111
Length 540 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Xun (Brian) Wu Xun (Brian) Wu
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Dongying Song Dongying Song
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Zhihong Zou Zhihong Zou
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Blockchain and Ethereum Basics
2. Blockchain and Cryptocurrency FREE CHAPTER 3. Ethereum Architecture and Ecosystem 4. Deep Research on Ethereum 5. Section 2: Blockchain Development Cycle
6. Solidity Fundamentals 7. Developing Your Own Cryptocurrency 8. Section 3: Ethereum Implementations
9. Smart Contract Development and Test Fundamentals 10. Writing UI for the DApps 11. Ethereum Tools and Frameworks 12. Section 4: Production and Deployment
13. Creating an Ethereum Private Chain 14. Deployment of Your Smart Contract 15. Building Ethereum Wallets 16. Section 5: Conclusion
17. Conclusion 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding inheritance, abstract contracts, and interfaces

There are four important pillars of object-oriented programming (OOP), as follows:

  • Inheritance
  • Encapsulation
  • Abstraction
  • Polymorphism

All of the preceding concepts play a critical role in influencing modern programming language design and software development. Inheritance enables code reuse and extensibility. Encapsulation refers to information hiding and bundling data within methods to avoid unauthorized direct access to the data. Abstraction is the process of exposing only the necessary information and hiding the details from other objects. Polymorphism allows functional extensibility via the overloading and overriding functions.

Like most modern object-oriented language, such as Java or C++, Solidity supports OOP concepts through inheritance, abstract contracts, and interfaces. In fact, it supports a superset...

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