Learn Solidity Handbook

Learn Solidity Handbook

This handbook intended to get you started on coding Solidity ASAP. It follows the Pareto Principle (aka the 80/20 rule) by focusing on the 20% of the info that will cover 80% of your needs.



Table of Contents


  • Who is this handbook for?
  • Essential prior knowledge
  • What is Solidity?
  • What is a smart contract?
  • How to declare variables and functions in Solidity?
  • Variable scope in Smart Contracts
  • How visibility specifiers work
  • What are constructors?
  • Interfaces and abstract contracts
  • Smart contract example #2
  • What is contract state?
  • State mutability keywords (modifiers)
  • Data locations – storage, memory, and stack
  • How typing works
  • Solidity data types
  • How to declare and initialize arrays in Solidity
  • What are function modifiers?
  • Error handling in Solidity - require, assert, revert
  • Inheritance in Solidity
  • Inheritance with constructor parameters
  • Type conversion and type casting in Solidity
  • How to work with floating point numbers in Solidity
  • Hashing, ABI encoding and decoding
  • How to call contracts and use the fallback function
  • How to send and receive Ether
  • Solidity libraries
  • Events and logs in Solidity
  • Time logic in Solidity
  • Conclusion and further resources

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