This book covers the essentials of Kotlin so you can start developing with this amazing programming language. It shows nearly everything you need to know in clear and executable code examples.
Who this book is for
This book is for developers with experience in other programming languages. Specifically, experience with an object-oriented programming language (such as Java, JavaScript, Python, or C++) would be beneficial to the reader.
What is covered
This book focuses on the essential Kotlin features, including:
variables, values, and types,
conditional statements and loops,
support for nullability,
classes, interfaces, and inheritance,
object expressions and declarations,
data, sealed, enum, and annotation classes,
extension functions,
collections,
operator overloading, the type system,
generics.
About the author
Marcin Moskała is an experienced Android developer, teacher, and official Jetbrains' Kotlin training partner.
He is the founder of Kt. Academy, author of the books Android Development with Kotlin, Kotlin Essentials, Advanced Kotlin, Functional Kotlin, Effective Kotlin and Kotlin Coroutines. Deep dive. He is also an active programming community member, the main author of the most significant medium publication about Kotlin, and a speaker invited to programming conferences.
