Getting Started with Kotlin

In this chapter, we'll cover basic Kotlin syntax, and discuss what design patterns are good for and why they should be used in Kotlin.

The goal of this chapter is not to cover the entire language vocabulary, but to get you familiar with some basic concepts and idioms. The following chapters will slowly expose you to more language features as they become relevant to the design patterns we'll discuss.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Basic language syntax and features
• Introduction to design patterns