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Hands-On Design Patterns with Kotlin

By : Alexey Soshin
Book Image

Hands-On Design Patterns with Kotlin

By: Alexey Soshin

Overview of this book

Design patterns enable you as a developer to speed up the development process by providing you with proven development paradigms. Reusing design patterns helps prevent complex issues that can cause major problems, improves your code base, promotes code reuse, and makes an architecture more robust. The mission of this book is to ease the adoption of design patterns in Kotlin and provide good practices for programmers. The book begins by showing you the practical aspects of smarter coding in Kotlin, explaining the basic Kotlin syntax and the impact of design patterns. From there, the book provides an in-depth explanation of the classical design patterns of creational, structural, and behavioral families, before heading into functional programming. It then takes you through reactive and concurrent patterns, teaching you about using streams, threads, and coroutines to write better code along the way By the end of the book, you will be able to efficiently address common problems faced while developing applications and be comfortable working on scalable and maintainable projects of any size.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Interpreter

This design pattern may seem very simple or very hard, all based on how much background you have in computer science. Some books that discuss classical software design patterns even decide to omit it altogether, or put it somewhere at the end, for curious readers only.

The reason behind this is that the interpreter design pattern deals with translating certain languages. But why would we need that? Don't we have compilers to do that anyway?

We need to go deeper

In this section we discuss that all developers have to speak many languages or sub-languages. Even as regular developers, we use more than one language. Think of tools that build your projects, like Maven or Gradle. You can consider their configuration...