I went through this book as part of a developer book club where I took a number of developers through the book along with me. As I went through this book I built out the following exercises to go along with some of the chapters to give the developers a chance to play around with the concepts that they were reading about. When we met to discuss the chapter, we would go through the exercises in a mob programming style, with me casting my laptop screen to a TV, and having the others in the group tell me what code to write to solve the problem, with me giving thoughts and suggestions here and there.
The developers in the book club were mostly all familiar with Java, so for chapters 3 through 6, the exercises that I built dealt with translating code from Java to Kotlin. These exercises went decently well:
For chapter 7 through 11, I changed strategies, and simply had a problem definition to solve without any code to translate. These went much better:
In addition to this, after finishing the book, I was asked present many of the concepts from the book in a series of trainings to a larger group of developers that were unfamiliar with the Kotlin language, along with some help from the other developers that were part of the book club. In addition to doing the training, I created the following outlines of the trainings so that attendees could have something to reference following the training:
All in all, I would say that this book club experience was very successful, with the participants getting a lot out of it and enjoying the process. I will look to reuse and build upon this experience as I help groups tackle technical books and topics moving forward.
