What would be a good book to teach someone Kotlin ...
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yaakov
07/06/2018, 1:15 AMWhat would be a good book to teach someone Kotlin with? Like a complete beginner
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Shawn
07/06/2018, 1:28 AMyou’re liable to get a lot of folks telling you Kotlin’s a bad language for absolute beginners, lots of java idiosyncrasies and whatnot
Shawn
07/06/2018, 1:29 AMI don’t think there’s a whole lot of literature out there for true “absolute” beginners ’cause the language design was kinda aimed towards folks who already knew Java or were kinda familiar with the JVM
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yaakov
07/06/2018, 1:43 AM@Shawn I just don't see any good documentation for a curriculum. I'm thinking I can just switch him to the Kotlin life later on when we start Android development.
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Shawn
07/06/2018, 1:44 AMit’s pretty easy to pick up after you get the hang of Java so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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yaakov
07/06/2018, 1:44 AMIn that case do you know of any good books in Java? Something good to teach with.
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Shawn
07/06/2018, 1:48 AMI mean, there’s the usual suggestions
Shawn
07/06/2018, 1:48 AMHead-First Java, Thinking in Java, Effective Java
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yaakov
07/06/2018, 1:48 AMI don't know what the usual suggestions are.
yaakov
07/06/2018, 1:48 AMI'm looking at Core Java right now
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Shawn
07/06/2018, 1:50 AMalso a decent option but maybe a bit dense for absolute beginners
Shawn
07/06/2018, 1:50 AMsuppose it depends on the person though
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yaakov
07/06/2018, 1:50 AMYeah I want something simple. Something like automating the boring stuff with python.
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Krs
07/06/2018, 5:24 AMFirst -> Core Java Fundamentals by Horstmann. Later Kotlin in Action. You need to at least know a little bit of Java ( Collections, Multithreading, Generics etc ) to use Kotlin since large part of Kotlin is just wrapped up Java