Summary of Kotlin Programmer Dictionary
In the last few months, Kt. Academy has been publishing articles called Kotlin programmer dictionary. 16 articles that explain more than 35 commonly confused terms, published by 2 authors and reviewed by much more programmers including great author Dmitry Jemerov. Until now, they had more than 42 000 views and nearly 1000 fans.
Not only views and number of fans show how interesting these articles were for readers. Articles have got a lot of great feedback and a lot of retweets. Some of these articles were also included in Kotlin Weekly newsletter. No one has expected such a great interest! Remember that this is the series that just explains terminology. It looks like this subject is really interesting for people.
Why is it so interesting? I can’t speak for others, but for me terminology meters because I am an author and a speaker and I need to care about it. The wrong term in a technical article is often logical error. It can be confusing and it looks highly unprofessional. Although looking at comments I think that most of the audience were normal programmers who opened post because they were interested. I think it is interesting for them because when we don’t have enough terminology then documentations or technical articles are harder for us. There are words we generally know but we are not sure what they really mean. With better knowledge of terminology, everything starts being simpler and our work is nicer. I guess that this is main motivation of readers.
It was a great fun explaining all these terms. The initial plan was fulfilled and I believe that all of the most important terms are described. With this article, I officially finish this series. It does not mean that no more articles on this subject will be published on Kt. Academy. It means that we won’t publish them regularly anymore. We will publish when we have something important to explain. We also want to invite other authors to propose their articles. Check out this article about writing for Kt. Academy. Now we need to concentrate on other series, like about multiplatform development or on Kotlin courses.
TL;DR
Kotlin Programmer Dictionary was a great success. Series is finished and it will not be published regularly anymore. If you want to write next article on this subject then you are very welcome. We also want to invite you to writing other articles for Kt. Academy.
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Here are other parts of the Kotlin programmer dictionary:
- Argument vs Parameter, Type argument vs Type parameter
- Statement vs Expression
- Function vs Method vs Procedure
- Field vs Property
- Class vs Type vs Object
- Object expression vs Object declaration
- Receiver
- Implicit receiver vs Explicit receiver
- Extension receiver vs Dispatch receiver
- Receiver type vs receiver object
- Function Type vs Function literal vs Lambda expression vs Anonymous function
- Higher-order function
- Function literal with receiver vs Function type with receiver
- Invariance vs Covariance vs Contravariance
- Event listener vs Event handler
- Delegation vs Composition
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