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Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839218262
Pages 486 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Jitendra Chittoda Jitendra Chittoda
Profile icon Jitendra Chittoda
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Blockchain, Ethereum, and Solidity
2. Introduction to Blockchain 3. Getting Started with Solidity 4. Control Structures and Contracts 5. Section 2: Deep Dive into Development Tools
6. Learning MetaMask and Remix 7. Using Ganache and the Truffle Framework 8. Taking Advantage of Code Quality Tools 9. Section 3: Mastering ERC Standards and Libraries
10. ERC20 Token Standard 11. ERC721 Non-Fungible Token Standard 12. Deep Dive into the OpenZeppelin Library 13. Using Multisig Wallets 14. Upgradable Contracts Using ZeppelinOS 15. Building Your Own Token 16. Section 4: Design Patterns and Best Practices
17. Solidity Design Patterns 18. Tips, Tricks, and Security Best Practices 19. Assessments 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Solidity data types

The Solidity language is statically typed. When writing a contract or library definition, all of the state variables and local variables must have the data type specified along with its declaration. There are many data types supported by Solidity. You can create your own custom type by using the data types supported by Solidity; for example, you can define your complex struct variable.

Solidity also has a support for the var keyword, used for dynamic data type. However, since Solidity version 0.4.20, the var keyword has been deprecated because of security concerns.

If we look at the Java language, it has primitive data types and reference data types. For reference data types, especially for instantiable class, the default value is null while initialization. However, in Solidity, there is no concept of null values. Instead of null, the...

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