Solidity Programming Essentials: A beginners guide to build smart contracts for Ethereum and blockchain

Ritesh Modi

ISBN 10: 1788831381 / ISBN 13: 9781788831383

Published by Packt Publishing, 2014

Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine. Seller Inventory # CHL10306524

Synopsis:

Learn the most powerful primary programming language for writing smart contracts and discover how to write, deploy, and test smart contracts in Ethereum

Key Features

• Get up and running with the Solidity programming language
• Use Solidity as a scripting language to build smart contracts in Ethereum
• Learn to test and deploy smart contracts to your private blockchain

Book Description

Solidity is a contract-oriented language with a syntax that is highly influenced by JavaScript, and designed to compile code for the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)....

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From the Author: How to compile Solidity Contracts using Solidity Compiler (Solc)Solidity compiler can be downloaded using the command
npm install -g solc
This command not only provides access to solc compiler from node environment but it also provides a commandline equivalent (Solcjs)
Using solcjs is shown next.Getting version number of solidity compilersolcjs --helpCompiling and generating both ABI definition and binary codesolcjs "Ether.sol" --abi --binCompiling, optimizing and generating  ABI definition and binary code.solcjs "Ether.sol" --abi --bin --optimizeChanging the output foldersolcjs "Ether.sol" --abi --bin --optimize --output-dir "C:outputfolder"
This book exclusively focuses on Solidity as a programming language for writing smart contracts. It gets into details about programming language and teaches how to use it for smart contracts. It can be deployed on multiple Blockchain platforms like Hyperledger and Monax. Moreover, It is quite widely adopted for the Ethereum platform. Ethereum provides multiple platforms and environments. These includes test environments like Rinkeby, Kovan, main network and also supports private deployments. This book is not about how to use these platforms. We can use these platforms even without using Solidity. This book does not discusses in depth the options available with Geth and Parity although it mentions steps to create a private network so that reader can deploy their own smart contracts.
There are multiple technologies used for writing web applications including HTML CSS, JavaScript etc. This book will not talk about these technologies. There are ample books on these in market.
There is a gap in market where none of existing books deals exclusively about Solidity and this book is about teaching nuances of Solidity and writing smart contracts.
Imagine knowing all the rules about working with Storage and Memory variables in Smart contracts, error handling, fallback functions, modifiers in depth along with contract level dependency deployment using Truffle. This book covers these aspects and more!!Solidity can be used uniformly whether its windows/Linux or a heterogeneous environment. There is no difference in authoring smart contracts based on them.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Solidity Programming Essentials: A beginners...
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication Date: 2014
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Used; Very Good