This textbook assumes very little knowledge of programming so whether
you have dabbled with a little JavaScript, played with a bit of Python,
written Java or have virtually no programming experience at all you will
find that it is for you.
The first part of the book introduces Kotlin program structures as well
as conditional flow of control features such as if and when expressions
as well as iteration loops such as for, while and do-while. Subsequent
chapters explain how functions are implemented in Kotlin and introduce
concepts from functional programming such as higher order functions and
curried functions.
The second part focusses on object oriented programming techniques,
these include classes, inheritance, abstraction and interfaces. The
third part presents container data types such as Arrays, and collections
including Lists, Sets and Maps and the fourth part considers concurrency
and parallelism using Kotlin coroutines. The book concludes with an
introduction to Android mobile application development using Kotlin.
Clear steps are provided explaining how to set up your environment and
get started writing your own Kotlin programs.
An important aspect of the book is teaching by example and there are
many examples presented throughout the chapters. These examples are
supported by a public GitHub repository that provides complete working
code as well as sample solutions to the chapter exercises. This helps
illustrate how to write well structured, clear, idiomatic Kotlin to
build real applications.
