Kotlin: Master Kotlin Programming - Step by Step Guide!

Kotlin is a statically typed language whose syntax is more expressive and concise than Java’s. Kotlin has been adopted by Google as a first-class language for developing Android apps. Since then, Kotlin has gained a huge popularity worldwide among developers due to its highly appreciable features therefore it also helps to build amazing applications in an easy and effective way. 

This course is an easy-to-follow guide with a step-by-step approach which will get you up and running with Kotlin basics and fundamentals such as variables, data types, string templates, expressions, null values, and loops. You will also learn to design application structures using functional programming concepts and implement business logic using tools provided by Arrow library. Next you will be introduced to using the Android Studio IDE which covers the concepts such as functions, lambdas, properties, object oriented code, safety aspects and type parameterization, Microservices, testing, concurrency which will guide you to write Kotlin’s code to production. Finally you will be mastering to integrate Kotlin in any existing Android project built using C++ or Java. 

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to write faster & cleaner code to build your own robust program in Kotlin to make your life easy as a Kotlin developer. Also you will be more proficient in using Kotlin for any kind of app development. 

Contents and Overview

This training program includes 2 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.

The first course, Learn Kotlin Programming starts by showing you how to set up the Kotlin environment and install Intellij IDEA to write Kotlin code. After that, the course dives into the Kotlin basics and fundamentals such as variables, data types, string templates, expressions, null values, and loops. Moving on, you’ll learn how to write functions in Kotlin. You’ll explore Kotlin as an Object-Oriented Language by exploring interfaces and various Kotlin classes . Next you’ll dive into Functional programming in Kotlin using Lambdas and higher-order functions . Finally, you’ll explore the collection framework and perform operations such as filtering and sorting using Predicates and FlatMaps in Kotlin. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to build your own robust program in Kotlin.

In the second course, Hands On Functional Kotlin demonstrates Kotlin language features and use-cases as well as popular functional programming concepts and techniques. You will learn to design application structures using functional programming concepts and implement business logic using tools provided by Arrow library.

In the third course, Kotlin – Tips, Tricks, and Techniques you will discover new possibilities with Kotlin and improve your app development process. In this course, you will work with interesting tools and techniques on examples which you can adopt straightaway. You will speed up your development with less coding and get faster results. By the end of this course, you will be able to write faster, cleaner code and make your life easy as a Kotlin developer.

In the fourth course, Mastering Kotlin for Android Development you will begin with exploring all the features of Kotlin language that make the language better alternative to Java. It will show you the environment setup, and the difficulty level will grow steadily with the features covered next. Moving on, we’ll introduce you to using the IntelliJ IDE, which plays an integral role in Kotlin development. We’ll cover Kotlin’s basic programming concepts such as functions, lambdas, properties, object-oriented code, safety aspects, type parameterization, and finally concurrency, which will guide you to write Kotlin’s code to production. By the end of the video, you will be proficient in using Kotlin for any kind of app development. 

About the Authors

• Book of Brains creates and distributes high-quality technology training content. We aim to teach technology the way it is used in industry and the professional world. Our trained team of professionals delivers hands-on workshops and training content for mobile as well web development technologies. We constantly monitor current industry trends and keep our training materials and workshops up to date.

  
  

• Stepan Goncharov lives in Singapore. He is involved in helping local developers to grow by sharing knowledge and organizing Kotlin Singapore User Group events. He has been engineering apps and games for Android since 2008. He has experience in QA, as a product manager, marketer, blogger, consultant, engineering manager, and much more. He has been involved in the development of apps that nobody uses and apps with millions of users worldwide. He currently works at Grab, actively uses Kotlin and Rx, and spends more and more time contributing to OSS. When he is not recording video courses or organizing events for developers, he travels around South East Asia skiing on a wakeboard. 

  
  

• Nigel Henshaw is a mobile software developer who, as well as providing software development services, loves to share his knowledge through his YouTube channel and website. Nigel originates from New Zealand, where he started out as an electrician. After one too many electric shocks, he wisely decided on a career change. After completing a two-year diploma in Computer Science and Technology at the Auckland University of Technology, Nigel relocated to London for new opportunities. He landed a job as a test engineer with a pioneering tech company called Psion, who were one of the first to develop hand-held devices and mobile operating systems. Before too long, Nigel was transferred to the base porting team and found himself in the midst of porting operating systems and writing device drivers with Symbian OS using C++.

  
  

  Nigel has experienced many wonderful opportunities through the software industry, working in the UK, Scotland, and Japan. He has held jobs as a software engineer, consultant, project manager, and general manager of a remote development site. In his spare time, Nigel is currently learning Japanese, enjoys cycling and running, and likes to finish off the day by soaking in a Japanese hot spring. 

  
  

• Marko Devcic is a Software Engineer currently working as an Android Developer for Austrian company mySugr in Vienna. He has a Master's degree in Engineering from University of Zagreb in Croatia. Over the years, he has worked with various technologies and languages, mostly C# and Java. He is passionate about technology and software development. He loves reading about programming languages and writing simple and clean code. In his spare time, he writes code for his personal projects, and contributes to open source projects. You can follow him on Github (username deva666). He also likes to write about Kotlin, C#, and programming in general on his web page.