Classes and Member Functions
Explore the fundamentals of Kotlin classes and member functions to understand how objects represent real-world entities in programming. This lesson teaches you to define classes, instantiate objects without the new keyword, and create member functions that describe the behavior of objects, enabling you to build structured and modular Kotlin applications.
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Introduction to classes
If we take a look at the world around us, we will likely notice plenty of objects. It might be a book, an e-book reader, a monitor, or a mug of coffee. We are surrounded by objects. This idea leads to the conclusion that we are living in a world of objects; therefore, our programs should be constructed in the same way. This is the conceptual basis of the object-oriented programming (OOP) approach. Not everyone shares this worldview—some prefer to see the world as a place of possible actions, which is the conceptual basis of the functional programming (FP) ...