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Kotlin Programming Language - Part 1

Kotlin language website is at https://kotlinlang.org.

All the codes here can be copied and run on Kotlin online editor.

Basics

• You do not need ; to break statements.
• Comments are similar to Java or C#, /* This is comment */ for multi line comments and // for single line comment.

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Command Cheatsheet

• Convert Maven build to gradle

  gradle init

• Initialise new project folder structure (Java example)

  gradle init --type java-library

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// imports a couple of java tasks
apply plugin: "java"

// List available tasks in the shell
> gradle tasks

// A Closure that configures the sourceSets Task
// Sets the main folder as Source folder (where the compiler is looking up the .java files)
sourceSets {
  main.java.srcDir "src/main"