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Learn Kotlin Programming

You're reading from   Learn Kotlin Programming A comprehensive guide to OOP, functions, concurrency, and coroutines in Kotlin 1.3

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789802351
Length 514 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Stefan Bocutiu Stefan Bocutiu
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Stephen Samuel Stephen Samuel
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Fundamental Concepts in Kotlin FREE CHAPTER
2. Getting Started with Kotlin 3. Kotlin Basics 4. Object-Oriented Programming in Kotlin 5. Section 2: Practical Concepts in Kotlin
6. Functions in Kotlin 7. Higher-Order Functions and Functional Programming 8. Properties 9. Null Safety, Reflection, and Annotations 10. Generics 11. Data Classes 12. Collections 13. Testing in Kotlin 14. Microservices with Kotlin 15. Section 3: Advanced Concepts in Kotlin
16. Concurrency 17. Coroutines 18. Application of Coroutines 19. Kotlin Serialization 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

For a Java developer wanting to migrate to Kotlin, this chapter ended up reviewing well-known concepts. Regardless of whether you have programmed in an OOP language before or not, you now know the key concepts of this software design approach, and you can write code that is object-orientated, using the new features available in Kotlin, and make it more structured and readable. I cannot overemphasize how important it is to favor composition over inheritance. There is no standard recipe for getting it right. Your goal should always be to keep things simple, and you should do the same when building a class hierarchy.

In the Chapter 4, Functions in Kotlin, you will get an in-depth view of functions in Kotlin. You will see how the language has borrowed from C# extension methods—special methods that allow you to add new functionality to existing classes.

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