Thursday, August 19, 2021

Flutter in Action Chapter 2 "Brief Introduction to Dart"

Completed taking notes on "Flutter in Action" chapter 2 "Brief Intro to Dart".

https://www.manning.com/books/flutter-in-action

Given the small number of pages in the book, its very information dense and provides a broad overview of the Dart language for a seasoned programmer; I would not want to walk into that chapter having never done programming before.  If you already know Java, Scala, Clojure, maybe Ruby, it would be easy to transition into Dart using this chapter.  Everything in the chapter made sense and was clearly written.


This seems like a longer format version of chapter 2 from the Dart community:

https://dart.dev/guides/language/language-tour

I intend to go thru this tour and review it at a later date.  Really, I should just read everything on dart.dev


There seem to be a large number of half started Dart koan projects.  Example:

https://github.com/Flutter-Explained/dart_koans

I will try to find a larger collection of Dart koans.


Anyway, onto chapter 3, "Breaking into Flutter".