Kotlin Office Hours at Appcues

Food and drinks will be provided! Note that we're hosted by Appcues this month, instead of our usual location at Intrepid.

Closest T Stops:
Haymarket (Green or Orange Line)

We'll switch things up again and head to Appcues this month, who have graciously offered to host. There we'll have a pair of talks about functional features in both the Kotlin Standard Library and the Arrow library.

Appcues is a user experience tool that delivers beautiful and effective guided product tours that improve usability and user engagement through unique interactive tutorials. No code necessary!

Let, Also, With, Apply, Run
Patrick Beagan
If you've ever seen kotlin code with words like "let, also, with, apply, run" thrown in and wondered what they're for, we'll cover them in this talk. We'll go over the basic usages of each of these standard library functions, the patterns that they can supplement, and how to extend their functionality to help consolidate your code!

Weaponize your Functional Kotlin with an Arrow
Anton Spaans
This talk is an introduction of how you can apply basic functional data types into your Kotlin applications. We will introduce concepts of functional programming and the basic functional data types provided by the Arrow library and show examples on how to use it all in your applications

• 6:30pm: Doors open
• 6:30-7:00pm: Eat and meet
• 7:00-8:00pm: Speakers / Q & A
• 8:00-8:15pm: Raffle!
• 8:15pm: Office Hours / Free Coding Time

What is this Meetup about?

Kotlin Office Hours is a monthly meetup where software developers of all backgrounds who want to learn Kotlin or improve their Kotlin skills can come, share their experiences and get help with their Kotlin projects.

Kotlin is an open-source programming language developed by JetBrains and has seen an upswell of interest since it's 1.0 release in 2016. It now supports not only JVM, but JavaScript and LLVM architectures as well. We will have experts speaking about Kotlin and its use in these various architectures, showing their knowledge and the projects that they are working on.

Who is it for?

This meetup is for both beginners and more advanced Kotlin developers who are interested in learning more about Kotlin and in how other developers are using it in their work and projects. Any developer with an interest in Kotlin is encouraged to join this meetup.