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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)

Summary

This chapter was dedicated to practicing functional programming principles and learning the building blocks of functional programming in Kotlin.

Now you should know how to transform your data with map()/mapTo(), how to filter() collections, and find() elements by criteria.

You should also be familiar with how to drop() elements to skip them, how to sort() collections, and how to iterate over them using forEach() and onEach().

Use join() to stringify collections, fold() and reduce() to total collections up, and flatten() and flatTo() to reduce collection nesting.

slice() is a way to get only a portion of a collection, while chunked() is used to break a collection into even portions.

Finally, zip() and unzip() combine two collections into a pair, or split the pair back into two parts.

In the next chapter, we'll discuss how familiarity with those methods helps us to...