With Andrey Breslav. Designing Kotlin and How to Learn Software Development

Come listen to this warm chat with Andrey Breslav, the lead language designer of Kotlin at JetBrains. He shares his journey to becoming a professional software developer and how Kotlin came about.

Show Notes

It was great to be able to talk to Andrey for this episode. He shared some of his journey to becoming a professional software developer (starting off with QBasic and Delphi), teaching software development to school kids, before moving to JetBrains to be the lead designer of the Kotlin language.

Links

• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (The Gang of Four book)
• Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications by Grady Booch
• Refactoring by Martin Fowler
• Kotlin
• JetBrains
• QBasic
• Delphi

Guests: Andrey Breslav (@abreslav).

Hosted By: Matthew Setter.

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