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Kotlin Thursdays - Introduction to Functional Programming in Kotlin Part 1

Resources Higher-Order Functions and Lambdas:https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/lambdas.html Introduction Welcome to Kotlin Thursda…

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Coroutine-First Android Architecture w/ Rick Busarow

Chicago Kotlin User Group x Android Listeners Hosted at GrubHub, July 17 Coroutines are the new hot stuff, and right now they’re being adde…

Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez

0 Jul 20, 2019

Coroutine-First Android Architecture w/ Rick Busarow

Chicago Kotlin User Group x Android Listeners Hosted at GrubHub, July 17 Coroutines are the new hot stuff, and right now they’re being adde…

Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez

0 Jul 20, 2019

Kotlin Thursdays - Networking in Android and Kotlin

We have an existing Android Avocado Facts application created in an older Kotlin Thursdays post, but for any Android application to be s…

Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez

0 Apr 11, 2019

Kotlin Thursdays - Introduction to Functional Programming Part 2

Resources Higher-Order Functions and Lambdas:https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/lambdas.html FP in Kotlin Part 1: https://medium.com

Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez

0 Apr 11, 2019

Kotlin Thursdays - Introduction to Functional Programming in Kotlin Part 1

Resources Higher-Order Functions and Lambdas:https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/lambdas.html Introduction Welcome to Kotlin Thursda…

Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez

0 Apr 11, 2019

Kotlin Thursdays - Introduction to Kotlin Generics, Part 2

Hi folks! Welcome to Kotlin Thursdays. Last week, we examined classes, types, generic functions & parameters as well as covariance &…

Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez

0 Apr 9, 2019

KT presents: Tea Time - OSS, a Culture Shift with Joel Vasallo

This Kotlin Thursday, Amanda, Matt and Joel Vasallo discuss the brief history of tech in Chicago and the OSS culture shift in the industry.…

Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez

0 Mar 22, 2019

Kotlin Thursdays - Introduction to Kotlin Generics, Part 1

Hi folks! Welcome to Kotlin Thursdays. I’m really excited to kick off the first one of the year, and what better way to do it than tackling…

Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez

0 Mar 22, 2019

Cool TornadoFX Project of the Week: Textricator by Measures of Justice

A GUI for extracting text from PDFs & generating CSVs/JSONs used to collect thousands of pages of data to assess and compare performanc…

Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez

0 Feb 16, 2019

Kotlin Thursdays - Static Web with Kotlin DSLs with John Burns

Kotlin Thursdays: Static Web with Kotlin DSLs With John Burns (@wakingrufus) The term "static web" refers to a style of web developm…

Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez

1 Dec 20, 2018
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