In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Choosing an IDE wisely
• Writing your first smart contract
• Testing your contract with Remix
• Static and dynamic types in solidity
• Constructor and fallback functions
• Working with struct and enum
• Control structures in solidity
• Writing functions in solidity
• Deciding between arrays and mappings
• Where to use function modifiers
• Using visibility modifiers efficiently
• Essential events: EVM logger
• Efficiently using memory and storage
• Compiling your contract with the solc compiler
• Deploying the contract using geth