Which Kotlin book should I recommend to my teammat...

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[Marian Schubert]

Which Kotlin book should I recommend to my teammate who is going to start with Kotlin? (He has experience with Python).

[Big Chungus]

None, tell him to do online tutorials or watch some youtube videos on the topic. He'll learn much faster and retain the knowledge much better. (just my opinion, your mileage might vary)

[kqr]

koans or https://pragprog.com/titles/vskotlin/programming-kotlin/

[Alex Nabrozidis]

koans are my preference on any programming language

[thanksforallthefish]

I am also more oriented into learn-by-doing for practical things. books are better suited for theoretical stuff, like programming concepts, but when it comes to specific languages just jump into koans, specific tutorials and in general code

[Alex Nabrozidis]

Yeah the same ^ but I'd also say that jumping into a koans depends on overall experience as a software engineer

[Marian Schubert]

I also like learn by doing, but some language books contain so much more than syntax basic stuff. E.g., Erlang book contains great stuff about error handling, concurrency, Clojure book(s) about data structures, concurrency, ... which makes learning such language(s) so much more exciting.

[Peter Ertl]

not brand new but still a great read: https://www.manning.com/books/kotlin-in-action

[Fabio]

this book is very good, but it doesn't have anything about coroutines

[Peter Ertl]

it’s great for learning the basics of kotlin … after that you gained enough initial knowledge to learn about coroutines from https://kotlinlang.org/docs/coroutines-overview.html

[JsebasCT]

https://hyperskill.org/ has good projects to learn by practicing