Beginning Kotlin

Build Applications with Better Code, Productivity, and Performance
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4842-8697-5
Verlag: Apress

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 388 g

This book introduces the Kotlin programming skills and techniques necessary for building applications. You'll learn how to migrate your Java programming skills to Kotlin, a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) programming language.
The book starts with a quick tour of the Kotlin language and gradually walks you through the language in greater detail over the course of succeeding chapters. You’ll learn Kotlin fundamentals like generics, functional programming, type system, debugging, and unit testing. Additionally, with the book’s freely downloadable online appendices, you’ll discover how to use Kotlin for building Spring Boot applications, data persistence, and microservices.

What You Will Learn - Learn the Kotlin language, its functions, types, collections, generics, classes, and more
- Dive into higher-order functions, generics, debugging, and unit testing
- Apply the fundamentals of Kotlin toSpring Boot

- Add Hibernate to your Spring Boot application for persistence and data accessibility

- Take advantage of functional programming available in Kotlin

Who This Book Is For
Java developers who are new to Kotlin and want to leverage Kotlin, particularly for building Spring Boot apps.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hagos, Ted

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Programmier- und Skriptsprachen
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 – Introduction to Kotlin.- Chapter 2 – Quick Tour of the Kotlin Language.- Chapter 3 – Functions.- Chapter 4 – Types.- Chapter 5 – Higher Order Functions.- Chapter 6 – Working with Collections.- Chapter 7- Working with Generics.- Chapter 8 – Debugging.- Chapter 9 - Unit Testing.- Chapter 10 - Idiomatic Kotlin.- Chapter 11 - Creating a Spring Boot project.

Über Autor(innen)

Ted Hagos is the CTO and Data Protection Officer of RenditionDigital International (RDI), a software development company based out of Dublin. Before he joined RDI, he had various software development roles and also spent time as a trainer at IBM Advanced Career Education, Ateneo ITI, and Asia Pacific College. He spent many years in software development dating back to Turbo C, Clipper, dBase IV, and Visual Basic. Eventually, he found Java and spent many years working with it. Nowadays, he’s busy with full-stack JavaScript, Android, and Spring applications.