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Hands-On Object-Oriented Programming with Kotlin

By : Abid Khan, Igor Kucherenko
Book Image

Hands-On Object-Oriented Programming with Kotlin

By: Abid Khan, Igor Kucherenko

Overview of this book

Kotlin is an object-oriented programming language. The book is based on the latest version of Kotlin. The book provides you with a thorough understanding of programming concepts, object-oriented programming techniques, and design patterns. It includes numerous examples, explanation of concepts and keynotes. Where possible, examples and programming exercises are included. The main purpose of the book is to provide a comprehensive coverage of Kotlin features such as classes, data classes, and inheritance. It also provides a good understanding of design pattern and how Kotlin syntax works with object-oriented techniques. You will also gain familiarity with syntax in this book by writing labeled for loop and when as an expression. An introduction to the advanced concepts such as sealed classes and package level functions and coroutines is provided and we will also learn how these concepts can make the software development easy. Supported libraries for serialization, regular expression and testing are also covered in this book. By the end of the book, you would have learnt building robust and maintainable software with object oriented design patterns in Kotlin.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Range

Kotlin provides a collection of elements with a start and end point. This collection is called a range. The quickest way to create a range is as follows:

val range = 1..10

Kotlin provides a two-dot operator (..) to create a range. In the preceding example, we successfully created a range of integers that starts from 1 and ends at 10. Once the range has been created, we can iterate over and access each element using a for loop:

val range = 1..10
for (value in range){
println(value)
}

We can also check whether a specific value is within a range by using the in and !in operators:

val range = 1..10
if(4 in range){
println("Yes within Range")
}

if(14 !in range){
println("Not in Range")
}

If range contains specified value, 4 in range will return true and the if block will be executed. Otherwise, it will be skipped.

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