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Hands-On Object-Oriented Programming with Kotlin

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Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789617726

Length 370 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Kotlin

Concepts

Design Patterns

Authors (2):

Khan

Igor Kucherenko

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

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Preface

1. Getting Started with Kotlin FREE CHAPTER

2. Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming

3. The Four Pillars of Object-Oriented Programming

4. Classes - Advanced Concepts

5. Data Collection, Iterators, and Filters

6. Object-Oriented Patterns in Kotlin

7. Coroutines - a Lightweight Thread?

8. Interoperability

9. Regular Expression and Serialization in Kotlin

10. Exception Handling

11. Testing in Object-Oriented Programming with Kotlin

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Authors (2)

Khan

Khan

Abid Khan is an application developer and test engineer with over 10 years of experience. He has worked with different programming languages, including C/C++ and Java, and is now working with Kotlin as a primary language for Android development. Abid is also the author of a book, Hands-On Object-Oriented Programming in Kotlin. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden, and spends most of his time reading books, learning new technologies, and blogging.

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Igor Kucherenko

Igor Kucherenko

Igor Kucherenko is an Android developer at Techery, a software development company that uses Kotlin as the main language for Android development. Currently, he lives in Ukraine, where he is a speaker in the Kotlin Dnipro community, which promotes Kotlin, and shares his knowledge with audiences at meetups. You can find his articles concerning Kotlin and Android development on Medium and in a blog for Yalantis, where he worked previously.

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