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Mastering Kotlin

You're reading from   Mastering Kotlin Learn advanced Kotlin programming techniques to build apps for Android, iOS, and the web

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838555726
Length 434 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nate Ebel Nate Ebel
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Kotlin – A Modern Solution to Application Development FREE CHAPTER
2. A New Challenger Approaches 3. Programmers' Multi-Tool – Flexible, Expressive, and Concise 4. Section 2: Putting the Pieces Together – Modeling Data, Managing State, and Application Architecture
5. Understanding Programming Paradigms in Kotlin 6. First-Class Functions 7. Modeling Real-World Data 8. Section 3: Play Nice – Integrating Kotlin With Existing Code
9. Interoperability as a Design Goal 10. Crossing Over – Working across Java and Kotlin 11. Controlling the Story 12. Baby Steps – Integration through Testing 13. Section 4: Go Beyond – Exploring Advanced and Experimental Language Features
14. Practical Concurrency 15. Building Your Own Tools – Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) 16. Fully Functional – Embracing Functional Programming 17. Section 5: The Wide World of Kotlin – Using Kotlin across the Entire Development Stack
18. Kotlin on Android 19. Kotlin and Web Development 20. Introducing Multiplatform Kotlin 21. Taming the Monolith with Microservices 22. Practical Design Patterns 23. Assessments 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 5: Modeling Real-World Data

  1. How do you define a class in Kotlin?
  • Use the class keyword followed by a name. You can then optionally add properties and methods.
  1. How do you define an interface in Kotlin?
  • Use the interface keyword followed by a name. You can then optionally add properties and functions.
  1. What are data classes?
  • Special classes that generate the equals(), hashCode(), and toString() implementations, and are ideal for immutable data classes
  1. What are sealed classes?
  • A special type of class useful for creating restricted class hierarchies. They are similar to enums, but allow each type in the hierarchy to have unique properties and methods.
  1. How is a sealed class different from an enum?
  • Sealed classes can include multiple different classes within the hierarchy and can include different data and methods.
  1. What is an object expression?
  • Kotlin&apos...
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