Programmers don't just use Kotlin, they love it. Even Google has adopted
it as a first-class language for Android development. With Kotlin, you
can intermix imperative, functional, and object-oriented styles of
programming and benefit from the approach that's most suitable for the
problem at hand. Learn to use the many features of this highly concise,
fluent, elegant, and expressive statically typed language with
easy-to-understand examples. Learn to write easy-to-maintain,
high-performing JVM and Android applications, create DSLs, program
asynchrony, and much more.
Kotlin is a highly concise, elegant, fluent, and expressive statically
typed multi-paradigm language. It is one of the few languages that
compiles down to both Java bytecode and JavaScript. You can use it to
build server-side, front-end, and Android applications. With Kotlin, you
need less code to accomplish your tasks, while keeping the code
type-safe and less prone to error. If you want to learn the essentials
of Kotlin, from the fundamentals to more advanced concepts, you've
picked the right book.
Fire up your favorite IDE and practice hundreds of examples and
exercises to sharpen your Kotlin skills. Learn to build standalone small
programs to run as scripts, create type safe code, and then carry that
knowledge forward to create fully object-oriented and functional style
code that's easier to extend. Learn how to program with elegance but
without compromising efficiency or performance, and how to use
metaprogramming to build highly expressive code and create internal DSLs
that exploit the fluency of the language. Explore coroutines, program
asynchrony, run automated tests, and intermix Kotlin with Java in your
enterprise applications.
This book will help you master one of the few languages that you can use
for the entire full stack - from the server to mobile devices - to
create performant, concise, and easy to maintain applications.
What You Need:
To try out the examples in the book you'll need a computer with Kotlin
SDK, JDK, and a text editor or a Kotlin IDE installed in it.
