Moskala M. Functional Kotlin 2023

Textbook in PDF format

This book is about functional programming features in Kotlin. It first covers the essentials and then builds on them: it presents important and practical topics like collection processing, scope functions, and DSL usage and creation, context receivers.
This book is about functional programming features in Kotlin. It first covers the essentials, and then it builds on them: it presents important and practical topics like collection processing, function references, scope functions, DSL usage and creation, and context receivers.
This position is perfect for developers who know the basics of Kotlin and want to learn well a bit more advanced features. It is a natural continuation of Kotlin for developers: Essentials.
It is based on the second day of the Kotlin for developers workshop and serves as one of the official workbooks for the workshop.
This book focuses on Kotlin’s functional features, including:
• function types,
• anonymous functions,
• lambda expressions,
• function references,
• functional interfaces,
• collection processing functions,
• sequences,
• DSL usage and creation,
• scope functions,
• context receivers.
Who is this book for?
This book is dedicated to developers with basic experience in using Kotlin or who have read my other book Kotlin Essentials