"Kotlin Compact" is for all Java professionals who want to get into Kotlin development with minimal time and effort. In compact chapters, concentrating on the essentials, you'll get to know Kotlin within a few afternoons or some subway rides, and you'll soon be able to use it to write your own programs and apps. As the title suggests, "Kotlin Compact" is not explicitly an all-encompassing work on Kotlin. Rather, it focuses on the necessary foundations and best features Kotlin has to offer, and which are most valuable when getting started with Kotlin development. About the author My name is Thorsten Schleinzer, I am a graduate in Media Information Technology and have been a professional software developer and architect for over 20 years. For a long time I have been working intensively with different programming languages. I started with BASIC, got to C/C++ via Pascal/Delphi & Assembler and finally arrived at Java. Although I've been developing with Java since its version 1.2, I've been working with or am still using several other C#, PHP, JavaScript/TypeScript, Ruby, Dart, Lua, Scala, and a few more. But it was only with Kotlin that a new language was able to fully delight me and convince me of a change.
Kort maar krachtig. Het is een degelijke intro voor Kotlin. Het meeste kende ik al door gebruik maar het was zeer nuttig om het eens opgelijst te zien staan.
A good "just to get you started" introduction to Kotlin. You can read it and get your feet wet. You'll definitely need more to learn the language. However, when faced with the job of having to learn a new language, you want to start with a core understanding that you can hold onto when you jump into the deep end. This provides that core understanding.