Kotlin Quick Start Guide

This is the code repository for Kotlin Quick Start Guide, published by Packt.

Core features to get you ready for developing applications

What is this book about?

Kotlin is a general purpose, object-oriented language that primarily targets the JVM and Android. Intended as a better alternative to Java, its main goals are high interoperability with Java and increased developer productivity. Kotlin is still a new language and this book will help you to learn the core Kotlin features and get you ready for developing applications with Kotlin.

This book covers the following exciting features:

Programming in Kotlin language syntax, basic types, control ﬂow, classes, and OOP
Writing functions and functional programming in Kotlin
Defning and importing from packages in Kotlin
Running Kotlin on JVMs and Android runtimes
Working with the Kotlin Standard Library and advanced features of Kotlin programming

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Instructions and Navigations

All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02.

The code will look like the following:

<plugin>
   <artifactId>kotlin-maven-plugin</artifactId>
   <groupId>org.jetbrains.kotlin</groupId>
   <version>${kotlin.version}</version>
   <configuration>
      <jvmTarget>1.8</jvmTarget>
   </configuration>
</plugin>

Following is what you need for this book: This book is intended for anybody who wants to learn the most important Kotlin features. No experience of Kotlin is expected.

With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-7).

Software and Hardware List

Chapter	Software required	OS required
1-6	Intellij IDEA Community Edition (ver. 2018 +)	Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any)
1-6	Java SE Development Kit 8	Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any)
7	Gradle	Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any)

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.

Get to Know the Author

Marko Devcic Marko Devcic is a software engineer currently working as an Android developer for an Austrian company called mySugr in Vienna. He has a master's degree in engineering from the University of Zagreb in Croatia. Over the years, he has worked with various technologies and languages, mostly C#, Java, and Kotlin. He is passionate about technology and software development. He loves reading about programming languages. In his spare time, he writes codes and contributes towards 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. When he is not behind a computer, he's practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu or spending time with his son.

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