Kotlin Design Patterns And Best Practices

Kotlin Design Patterns and Best Practices

Intermediate

95 Lessons

23h

Certificate of Completion

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Explanations

Explanations

This course includes

136 Playgrounds

9 Quizzes

58 Illustrations

This course includes

136 Playgrounds

9 Quizzes

58 Illustrations

Course Overview

Design patterns enable developers to speed up the development process by providing proven development paradigms. Reusing design patterns helps prevent complex issues that can cause major problems. Moreover, it improves your codebase, promotes code reuse, and makes an architecture more robust. In this course, you will start with a gentle introduction of the Kotlin language. You will explore design patterns that are part of the best practices that help developers use Kotlin efficiently. Design patterns appea...Show More

What You'll Learn

Familiarity with the vocabulary of design patterns

Ability to encapsulate object hierarchies and make object behaviors dynamic

Ability to write smarter code in Kotlin

Hands-on practice with Kotlin syntax and its specialized choices to solve special cases

Hands-on experience to implement the design patterns in Kotlin

Ability to select the appropriate set of best practices for a given problem

Course Content

1

Getting Started with Kotlin

Getting Started Basic Language Syntax and Features Understanding Kotlin Code Structure Understanding Types Control Flow Null Safety

Reviewing Kotlin Data Structures Working with Text Loops Classes

Interfaces, Abstract Classes and Inheritance Data Classes Extension Functions

Introduction to Design Patterns Quiz on Kotlin Basics

2

Working with Creational Patterns

Singleton Design Pattern Factory Design Pattern Abstract Factory Design Pattern Builder Design Pattern Prototype Design Pattern Quiz on Creational Patterns

3

Understanding Structural Patterns

Decorator Design Pattern Operator Overloading and Decorator Design Pattern Caveats Adapter Design Pattern Bridge Design Pattern Composite Design Pattern Facade Design Pattern Flyweight Design Pattern Proxy Design Pattern Quiz on Structural Patterns

4

Getting Familiar with Behavioral Patterns

Strategy Design Pattern Iterator design pattern State Design Pattern Command Design Pattern Chain of Responsibility Design Pattern Interpreter Design Pattern Mediator Design Pattern Memento Design Pattern Visitor Design Pattern Template Method Design Pattern Observer Design Pattern Quiz on Behavioral Patterns

5

Introducing Functional Programming

Immutability Functions as Values Closures and Pure Functions Currying and Memoization Using Expressions Instead of Statements Recursion Quiz on Functional Programming in Kotlin

6

Threads and Coroutines

6 Lessons

7

Controlling the Data Flow

6 Lessons

8

Designing for Concurrency

8 Lessons

9

Idioms and Anti-Patterns

9 Lessons

10

Concurrent Microservices with Ktor

8 Lessons

11

Reactive Microservices with Vert.x

8 Lessons

12

Conclusion

1 Lesson

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