Islam Faisal. Kotlin from Scratch: A Project-Based Introduction for the Intrepid Programmer

No Starch Press, 2025. — 432 p. — ISBN-13: 978-1-7185-0353-3.Learn Kotlin Through 37 ProjectsKotlin isn’t just for building Android apps. As you’ll learn in Kotlin from Scratch, it’s also a general programming language for crafting both elegant and efficient code.With the aid of 37 hands-on projects, you’ll move quickly through the language basics while building your problem-solving skills, even tackling advanced concepts like fractals, dynamic systems, and nature-inspired algorithms. You’ll explore the way Kotlin handles variables, control structures, functions, classes, and data structures, and you’ll learn to create visualizations using Kotlin and the JavaFX graphics library. Then you’ll build increasingly sophisticated apps to practice what you’ve learned while tackling challenges from math and science to algorithms and optimization.As you progress through the book, you will:
Simulate physical systems, like the intricate dance of binary stars
Implement the classic Hill cipher for encryption and decryption
Generate beautiful fractals with recursive algorithms
Program classic computer science algorithms for sorting and searching
Solve the infamous Berlin52 traveling salesman problemExpand your language repertoire and improve your computational thinking with Kotlin from Scratch.About the Author
Dr. Faisal Islam brings a wealth of interdisciplinary expertise to Kotlin from Scratch. With an MS in civil engineering and a PhD in resource economics, he offers a unique perspective on applying computational thinking to real-world challenges. Dr. Islam has over 20 years of experience in coding across multiple languages (C, Java, Python, and Kotlin) to solve complex problems and an extensive background in simulation, modeling, and optimization.