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Functional Kotlin
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Functional Kotlin

by Mario Arias, Rivu Chakraborty
February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
7h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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An introduction to collections

The collections framework is a set of classes and interfaces that provides a unified architecture for performing common groups of data related operations, such as the following:

  • Searching
  • Sorting
  • Insertion
  • Deletion
  • Manipulation

All the lists, maps, and sets we use in our programs everyday are part of this collections framework.

All collections frameworks contain the following things:

  • Interfaces: These are abstract data types are used to represent collections. Interfaces allow collections to be manipulated independent of the details of their representation. In object-oriented languages, these are generally interfaces form a hierarchy.
  • Implementations: These are concrete implementations of the collection of ...
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