Fundamental Kotlin

by Miloš Vasić

Kotlin is new programming language running on Java Virtual Machine, Android or browser. It is statically typed language and it can be compiled to JavaScript source code (running on browsers).

Kotlin
- Concise, drastically reduced code boilerplate
- Safe, impossible to get an NullPointerException
- Versatile, it is general-purpose programming language
- Interoperable, we can use existing JVM libs and frameworks.
A team at JetBrains (creators of IntelliJ Idea) developed Kotlin, an OSS language with an army of external contributors.

Kotlin’s benefits over Java

- It is Java-compatible language
- It compiles at least as fast as Java,
- It is safer than Java
- It is more concise than Java
- Reduces codebase significantly when compared to the same code written in Java

This is the second edition of the Fundamental Kotlin book. It upgrades Fundamental Kotlin book and brings us fresh examples of Kotlin programming language. Hope you will enjoy it!

Genres: Programming, Computer Science, Technical

156 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2016

Reviews

[Jovan Ristic · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent written book. After reading I realized the essence of Kotlin. Excellent starting point for working with Kotlin. The mechanisms described in the book successfully applied in everyday work. I congratulate the author and I hope that it will soon come out with advanced topics of Kotlin.

[Marko · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book! For me as the student this was more than enough to get into Kotlin! I hope there will be more books soon! :)

[Dragiša Rakić · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is the pure example how a sofware engineering reference book should be written. Also, this is a piece of the literature which misses for Kotlin so far: the (almost) complete reference. To get the maximum of this book, you should be fluent in Java or Swift or antique Object Pascal gracefully used in Delphi IDE. Even Objective-C and JavaScript counts, with the wider scope on mind.
Every major aspect of the programming language is covered: Variables and constants, typecasting, control flow, thread safety, objects & classes, also as the modern hype ones: functional programming and clojures. Every described feature is covered by at least one easy-understandable example. The goal of this book is not to teach the reader how to do programming, but to give him the seamless and as-easy-as-possible jump into the Kotlin bandwagon. An master example how the reference documentation should be written. Highly recommended.

[Persephone · Rating 5 out of 5]

Five Stars

Short and comprehensive. This book is great for introduction to Kotlin basics. It easy read and good for beginners. :)

[Vanja Petkovic · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book about Kotlin. Every Kotlin developer should have this manual in his arsenal. Great job!

[Aleksei Popov · Rating 5 out of 5]

In my mind, this book is a seminal work. It was the first real programming book I ever read, and although I've never done anything significant in Kotlin! The author's explanation of the various concepts has served me well!

[Alejandro Fernandez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book to start with Kotlin!

[Steve · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading this book! I must say it was short, but it help me a lot to start with Kotlin!

[Wolfgang Schäuble · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent!!!!

[Juris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book for programmers. Short, but concise. Must have for Android developers.