Kotlin Apprentice Second Edition

Kotlin Apprentice

Learn how to program with Kotlin! Kotlin is the exciting modern language from JetBrains, creators of IntelliJ IDEA, the basis of many popular IDEs such as Android Studio and PyCharm. Since the adoption of Kotlin by Google as an official language for Android, the momentum behind Kotlin has gone off the charts. In this book, you'll start with the basics of programming using Kotlin. You'll next learn everything from collections and lambdas to classes and interfaces, and then move on to more advanced topics like functional programming and coroutines. Kotlin supports many platforms, including Android, JavaScript, the JVM, and someday even iOS. By reading this book, you'll be ready to use Kotlin on any and all of these platforms. Who This Book Is For This book is for complete beginners to Kotlin. No prior programming experience is necessary! Topics Covered in Kotlin Apprentice Kotlin Development Environment: See how to setup a development environment for Kotlin using IntelliJ IDEA. Numbers and Strings: These are the basic kinds of data in any app-learn how to use them in Kotlin. Making Decisions: Your code doesn't always run straight through-learn how to use conditions and loops to control program flow. Functions and Lambdas: Group your code together into reusable chunks to run and pass around. Collection Types: Discover the many ways Kotlin offers to store and organize data into collections. Building Your Own Types: Learn how to model elements in your app using classes, objects, interfaces, and enumerations. Exceptions: Make your code more robust and flexible by signaling and handling exception conditions. Functional Programming: Learn how to use Kotlin in a functional style and how this can make your code clearer and more efficient. Coroutines: Asynchronous programming can be a complex topic on any platform, but Kotlin gives you a clear and consise approach with coroutines. Kotlin Platforms and Scripting: Learn about how Kotlin can be used on multiple platforms and see its use as a scripting language. One thing you can count on: after reading this book, you'll be prepared to take advantage of Kotlin wherever you choose to use it!

Kotlin Coroutines by Tutorials (Second Edition)

Dart Apprentice (First Edition)

Make Dart Your Programming Language of Choice There are many programming languages you can start learning today. But not many are as modern, easy to learn, object-oriented and scalable as Dart. Plus, combined with Flutter, Dart allows you to build native iOS, Android, web and desktop applications with a single code base. Dart Apprentice will teach you all the basic concepts you need to master this language. Follow along with the clearly and thoroughly explained concepts and you'll be building Dart applications in a breeze. Who This Book Is For Dart Apprentice is aimed at anyone interested in learning this new and modern programming language. If you're a beginner and want to start programming, this is great place to start. If you're an experienced programmer interested in learning Dart, here you'll find all the concepts you need to know. In either case, following along with this book, you'll be comfortable writing your own Dart programs in less time than you think. Topics covered in Dart Apprentice Expressions, Variables and Constants: The building blocks of the language Types and Operations: Static vs. dynamic typing, inference and strings Control Flow: Booleans, enums, switches, if statements and loops Functions: Named and anonymous functions, parameters and arrow syntax Classes: Objects, constructors, methods and properties Nullability: Null and how to handle it Collections: Lists, sets and maps Advanced classes: Inheritance, abstract classes, interfaces and mixins Asynchronous Programming: Concurrency, futures, streams and isolates One thing you can count on: after reading this book, you'll be prepared to build your own applications using Dart. About the Tutorial Team The Tutorial Team is a group of app developers and authors who write tutorials at the popular website raywenderlich.com. We take pride in making sure each tutorial we write holds to the highest standards of quality. We want our tutorials to be well written, easy to follow, and fun. If you've enjoyed the tutorials we've written in the past, you're in for a treat. The chapters we've written for this book are some of our best yet - and this book contains detailed technical knowledge explained in a way you simply won't be able to find anywhere else.