Are there currently any book recommendations? The ...

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[Jilles Soeters]

Are there currently any book recommendations? The docs are fantastic but I like diving into a book with some actual project examples 🙂

[Colton Idle]

I used the kotlin in action book by @svtk and the big nerd ranch kotlin books

[Kamal Hamoud]

+1 for Kotlin In Action, great book

[Jilles Soeters]

That’s exactly what I was looking for! Just bought it, thank you very much

[Jilles Soeters]

It does seem to miss coroutines and channels because those are probably newer features (book is from 2019)

[Stefan Oltmann]

The Kotlin in Action book is indeed really great!

[Stefan Oltmann]

It even helps to understand Java better.

[Stefan Oltmann]

Pluralsight has a good course on Coroutines that I can recommend. I watched it in my trial time.

https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/kotlin-using-coroutines?aid=7010c000002SNseAAG&pro[…]TKyoWEIXfx6P34M9tRFilPRIaFCblFXOzzzWCMEiT77_pRoCaz8QAvD_BwE

[Jilles Soeters]

That seems like a fantastic resource

[Benoît Liessens]

I have done the PS coroutine course. Overall it’s pretty good and has many examples. On the downside it does rely on an older version of Kotlin. Some apis have changed meanwhile.

[javaru]

Programming Kotlin and Programming DSLs in Kotlin — both by Venkat Subramaniam and published by The Pragmatic Bookshelf (as there’s another “Programming Kotlin” book by another author & publisher) are both excellent books. Obviously the second is more niched. The books’ web sites provides some excerpts so you can check it out.

[Colton Idle]

Ooh. Love Venkats talks. Will try out his book!

[Jilles Soeters]

@javaru I got Programming Kotlin and am about 25% in so far. This was a perfect recommendation. The writing style and content exactly matches my preferred reading style. Many thanks!

[javaru]

I'm glad you are finding it useful.

[Benoît Liessens]

Same here: read about 25% of the DSLs in Kotlin.