Beginning Kotlin
Build Applications with Better Code, Productivity, and Performance
Published on 23. November 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIX, 230 pages
978-1-4842-8697-5 (ISBN)
Description
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
Who This Book Is For
Java developers who are new to Kotlin and want to leverage Kotlin, particularly for building Spring Boot apps.
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.
More details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkeley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
62 s/w Abbildungen
XIX, 230 p. 62 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
388 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4842-8697-5 (9781484286975)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4842-8698-2
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
11/2022
APress
€36.99
Available for download
Person
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.
Content
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.