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This course is part of Solidity Mastery: Foundations to Advanced Smart Contracts Specialization
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This course is for developers with basic Solidity and blockchain knowledge, requiring familiarity with smart contracts, syntax, and data structures.
Recommended experience
Intermediate level
This course is for developers with basic Solidity and blockchain knowledge, requiring familiarity with smart contracts, syntax, and data structures.
Understand array manipulation methods (push, pop, delete) and explain the roles of constructors, structs, and enums in Solidity smart contracts.
Apply learned concepts by implementing arrays, enums, and structs in practical smart contract examples.
Analyze and assess the efficiency of data structures, such as mappings and nested mappings, for secure and scalable smart contract development.
Create advanced smart contracts by integrating mappings, structs, and enums to solve real-world blockchain challenges.
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Dive deep into Solidity's core data structures in this advanced course that builds on foundational knowledge of smart contract programming. Starting with constructors, you'll explore how to initialize smart contracts and manage state variables. The course transitions to mastering arrays in Solidity, covering crucial methods like push, pop, and length, as well as array manipulation techniques such as deletion and compacting arrays.
Next, you’ll learn to work with enums, structs, and mappings, essential components for creating more complex and efficient smart contracts. The course includes hands-on exercises to practice writing custom data types and associating values with mappings, and you'll solve real-world coding challenges along the way. Enums and structs are covered in detail, showing how to group data and define custom types, preparing you to write more structured and maintainable contracts. Lastly, the course dives into nested mappings and the assignment of structs within mappings, a powerful tool for developing scalable and secure contracts. By the end, you will have mastered the tools needed to work with advanced Solidity data structures, laying a solid foundation for further exploration of blockchain development. This course is designed for developers with a basic understanding of Solidity and blockchain development. Prerequisites include familiarity with smart contracts, basic Solidity syntax, and introductory data structures.
In this module, we will delve into the essential aspects of advanced Solidity structures, including constructors, arrays, and mappings. You’ll gain practical experience through hands-on exercises with these data structures, learning to efficiently manage and store complex data in your smart contracts.
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In this module, we will dive into conversions in Solidity, covering bit and unit conversions as well as Ether denominations. You'll practice asserting conversions and suffixes through exercises, then explore the significance of global and special variables for efficient contract management.
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In this module, we will explore Solidity functions in depth, starting with modifiers and ending with cryptographic functions. You will learn how to write more efficient code through multiple returns, destructuring, and the use of fallback functions, followed by exercises to solidify these skills.
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