Venkat Subramaniam: Kotlin for Java Programmers
Channel: Denver Java Users Group
Date: 2019-08-29

There's so much you know as a Java programmer and yet there is so much more that Kotlin offers. It's a language that is built on strong foundations and, at the same time, brings along phenomenal concepts to favor low ceremony, fluency, sensible warnings, safe types, pragmatic mixture of object-oriented and functional programming, and so much more.

In this presentation, you'll start with what you already are familiar with, and dive into Kotlin, to learn about its strengths and capabilities.

About Dr. Venkat Subramaniam

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.

He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.

Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com.

You can find Venkat on Twitter @venkat_s (https://twitter.com/venkat_s).