Stephen Samuel - Learn Kotlin Programming: A comprehensive guide to OOP, functions, concurrency, and coroutines in Kotlin 1.3, 2nd Edition

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Stephen Samuel is an accomplished developer with over 17 years of experience. He has worked with Java throughout his career, and in the past five years has focused on Scala. He has a passion for concurrency and big data technologies. Having spent the last few years in investment banking, he is currently working with Kotlin on a major big data investment project. Stephen is also active in the open source community, being the author of several high-profile Scala and Kotlin libraries

Stefan Bocutiu is a big data consultant with over 13 years of experience in software development. He enjoys coding in Scala and C#, and has a passion for stream processing technologies. With the team at DataMountaineer, he focuses on providing scalable, unified, real-time data pipelines to allow reactive decision making, analytics, and Hadoop integration.

Stefan is passionate about motorsports, and while his racing skills are not good enough to allow him to compete, he tries to attend as many MotoGP races as possible. When he is not coding, he can be found at the climbing wall or at the gym. Occasionally, hiking and scrambling trips are on his calendar, and during the winter season, skiing trips are a must for him .

Ehsun Behravesh is a senior software engineer employed by Atlassian. He fell in love with computer programming when he was 15. Ehsun is holding a master's degree in computer science, and he has worked as a software engineer in five countries.

Rivu Chakraborty is a speaker, author, community contributor, Google-certified Android developer, and Caster.io instructor. He has over seven years of professional experience, and is currently working as a senior software engineer (Android) at BYJU'S The Learning App. Rivu considers himself a Kotlin and Android enthusiast-cum-evangelist. He has been using Kotlin since December 2015. Rivu created the Kotlin Kolkata User Group, and before moving out to Bangalore, he had been the lead organizer for both the Kotlin Kolkata User Group and GDG Kolkata. Along with organizing events, he also speaks at local events and conferences all over India, including DroidJam India and DevFests. Rivu has authored multiple books on Kotlin and Android development.

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Kotlin is typically associated with Android development, and most discussions surrounding it gravitate around this. However, the language has much more to offer and is ideal for modern server-side developers. While any Android developer will find useful snippets in this book, it is primarily aimed at Java and Scala developers. The book starts with an introduction to Kotlin and explains how you set up your environment before moving on to the basic concepts. Once the basics are out of the way, the focus shifts toward more advanced concepts, and don't be surprised if you see a few bytecode listings. Once you have completed the book, you should have all the knowledge required to start using Kotlin for your next project.

This book is aimed at those who have little or no Kotlin experience and who wish to learn the language quickly. The focus of the book is on server-side development in Kotlin, and would be best suited to a developer who is currently a server-side developer, or who wishes to learn. No prior knowledge of functional or object-orientated programming is required, but knowledge of another programming language is recommended.