Gain insights into Kotlin language essentials and delve into design patterns and best practices. Discover functional programming techniques to enhance code reuse, robustness, and build reliable, scalable projects.

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Design patterns enable developers to speed up the development process by providing proven development paradigms. Reusing design patterns helps prevent complex issues that can cause major problems. Moreover, it improves your codebase, promotes code reuse, and makes an architecture more robust.

In this course, you will start with a gentle introduction of the Kotlin language. You will explore design patterns that are part of the best practices that help developers use Kotlin efficiently. Design patterns appeared in the era of object-oriented languages such as C++ and Java. You will learn the language features that Kotlin provides, which allow developers to program in a functional style and implement the design patterns.

After taking this course, you’ll be able to take your knowledge of Kotlin, design patterns, and associated best practices to the software industry and apply it to build reliable, scalable, and maintainable projects.

Kotlin Design Patterns and Best Practices

Only once, as they are designed to be used exactly once

Can singleton objects be instantiated in Kotlin?


Can singleton objects be instantiated in Kotlin?

What is the difference between Kotlin's `Any` type and Java's `Object` type?



What is the difference between Kotlin’s <code>Any</code> type and Java’s <code>Object</code> type?

What is the purpose of a Factory Method in the Abstract Factory design pattern?


What is the purpose of a Factory Method in the Abstract Factory design pattern?

To create simple objects with one constructor


To solve problems with a long list of constructor arguments in a class


To create objects that are easy to change

What is the Builder design pattern used for?


What is the Builder design pattern used for?

It helps with creating objects that are similar but vary slightly.



It helps with reducing the cost of object creation.


What is the main advantage of using the Prototype design pattern?


What is the main advantage of using the Prototype design pattern?

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Getting Started with Kotlin

Working with Creational Patterns

Understanding Structural Patterns

Getting Familiar with Behavioral Patterns

Introducing Functional Programming

Threads and Coroutines

Controlling the Data Flow

Designing for Concurrency

Idioms and Anti-Patterns

Concurrent Microservices with Ktor

Reactive Microservices with Vert.x

Conclusion

Quiz on Creational Patterns