Virtual | Venkat Subramaniam: Kotlin for Developers

• Building Kotlin Code
  
• Why Kotlin?
• Compiling
• Bundling Kotlin
• Using the REPL
• Running as a Script
• Compiling to Java bytecode
• Compiling to JavaScript
• Exercises

• Kotlin Essentials
  
• Defining variables and constants
  
• String Templates
  
• Raw Strings
  
• Expressions over statements
  
• Type Inference
  
• Exercises

• Working with Functions
  
• Creating Functions
  
• Default and Named Arguments
  
• varargs and spread
  
• Destructuring
  
• Exercises 

 Agenda: Day 2

• Collections
  
• Java Collections in Kotlin
  
• Pair and Triple
  
• Generics
  
• Variance
  
• Sequences
  
• Iteration
  
• Exercises

• Types and Argument Matching
  
• Types in Kotlin
  
• Type Safety
  
• Nullable
  
• Casting when as a statement and an expression
• Extension Functions on Any: let,also,apply,run
  
• Exercises

  Agenda: Day 3

• Classes and OO Programming
  
• Creating Classes
  
• Inheritance
  
• Writing Constructors
  
• Overriding Methods
  
• Data Classes
  
• Exercises

• Delegation and Extensions
  
• Extension Methods
  
• Delegation
  
• Lazy
  
• Creating custom delegations
  
• Exercises
  

• Functional Programming in Kotlin
  
• Imperative vs Functional
  
• Kotlin's Lambdas
  
• Idioms and styles in Kotlin
  
• Lexical vs dynamic scoping
  
• Inline functions with lambdas
  
• Non-local returns and labeled returns
  
• Exercises 

 Agenda: Day 4

• Internal Iterators and Lazy Evaluation 
• External vs internal iterators
• Filter, map, reduce
• Flatten and flatmap
• Sorting and grouping
• Sequences and infinite series
• Exercises

• Coroutines
  
• Asynchronous Programming
  
• Why use coroutines?
  
• Making use of Coroutines
  
• Internal representations
  
• Exercises
  

• Creating DSLs
  
• Creating Fluent Syntax
  
• Infix
  
• Learning about implicit objects 
  
• Designing DSLs
  
• Exercises

 Agenda: Day 5

• Java Integration
  
• Calling Java code from Kotlin
  
• Calling Kotlin code from Java
  
• Keeping an eye on interops
  
• Exercises

• Automated Testing with Kotlin
  
• Test Driven Development
  
• Empirical vs Interaction Tests
  
• Data Driven Tests 
  
• Mocking out dependencies
  
• Testing Coroutines
  
• Exercises
  

Are there any prerequisites?