Advanced Kotlin & Ktor Training Course

Standard duration: 2 Days
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About the course:

Our Advanced Kotlin training course will take your existing development skills up a notch, taking in Coroutines, testing tools and techniques, web services with Ktor, and reactive programming with RxKotlin.

This course can be combined with topics from our Intro to Kotlin course and / or Kotlin for Android course to build a comprehensive training programme for people new to these technologies.

As with all our courses, we offer this as a remote virtual instructor-led workshop, giving you the flexibility to 'slice and dice' a custom training solution to meet your team's needs, taking into account learning goals, on-going projects, and working-from-home considerations.

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In a nutshell Who should attend Flexible training Course syllabus

By the end of this course, you will have learnt about:

Coroutines and Coroutine Channels
Kotlin Testing tools and techniques
RESTful services with Ktor
Reactive programming with RxKotlin

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Who should attend

Developers who are looking to extend their capabilities with this increasingly popular alternative to Java.

Prerequisites

Delegates should have attended our Intro to Kotlin training course or have equivalent experience with Kotlin.

Live, instructor-led online and on-site training

This Advanced Kotlin course is available for private / custom delivery for your team - face-to-face, on-site at your location of choice, or remotely via MS Teams, Zoom or your own platform - get in touch to find out how we can deliver tailored training which focuses on your project requirements and learning goals.

Welcome

Course Overview
Introduction to the course
Course Outline
Trainer and Delegate Introductions

Coroutines

Why Asynchronous Programming and Asynchronous Execution
What are Threads?
Problems with Threading
Coroutines
Implementing Coroutines
Coroutine Scope
Coroutine Dispatchers
Coroutine Builders
Suspend Functions

Coroutine Channels

Coroutine Jobs
Coroutine Channel Communications
Simple Channel Example
Multiple Senders
Multiple receivers
Buffered Channels

Kotlin Testing

JUnit Test Framework
Terminology
Configuring JUnit with Maven and Gradle
Locating the Tests
Conventions for tests
Sample Kotlin test
Assertions
Fixtures
Test Order and Parameterized tests
Factory tests
Exception Testing
Mocking

Ktor

RESTFul services
What is Ktor?
Using Ktor with Kotlin
Steps for building a Ktor service
Setting up the embedded server
Configuring Jackson JSON converter
Configuring routing requests
Example application using GET
Working with POST, PUT and DELETE

RxKotlin

What is Reactive Programming?
The ReactiveX Project
The Observer Pattern
Hot and Cold Observables
Advantages & Disadvantages of Reactive Programming
RxKotlin Reactive Programming Framework
Observables in RxKotlin
Observer Object
Multiple Observers

RxKotlin Subjects and Operators

Subjects in RxKotlin
Observer Concurrency
RxKotlin Operators
Piping operators
Creational operators
Transformational Operators
Combinatorial Operators
Filtering Operators
Mathematical Operators
Chaining Operators

Public Courses Dates and Rates

Standard duration: 2 Days

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