A Night Discussing Kotlin @ FoursquareHQ
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Event description
Description
Join us at Foursquare's HQ office in Soho for a great evening with Huyen Tue Dao + a potential surprise guest and engage in practical, concrete as well as pragmatic discussions about Kotlin with us!
A bit about Huyen:
Huyen Tue Dao is an Android developer and Google Developer Expert, currently working on the Trello Android app at Atlassian. She is also co-creator of the "Android Dialogs" YouTube channel.
Huyen lives in Denver, CO though is often found in the DC Metro area. When she is not up late programming, she is often found up late gaming (video, board, card, anything).
What will be discussed?
Less Imperative with More Kotlin
For many of us, imperative programming is all we've known in our careers, but with the adoption of Kotlin, we're learning more about functional programming and how to do things in a more declarative way, focusing on what we want to do instead of how to do it.
In this talk, Huyen would share her first forays into developing more declaratively with functional programming and why moving to this style can help us write more readable, more maintainable, and less error-prone code. Huyen will run through examples of how to think functionally using language features and the stdlib of Kotlin, as well as how to build your own tools for moving from imperative to declarative.
