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Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
Sections that collapse and expand at the click of a button is fairly ubiquitous across the web nowadays. It's especially handy for mobile, where the display is much smaller than your typical computer monitor. In this article, I'll walk you through how to create a basic collapsible content-area using almost …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
Welcome to part 2 of my series on the idiomatic Kotlin binary tree! In this part, we're gonna have a look at how to make the node representation from part 1 capable of carrying any kind of data (i.e. generic).
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
In my journey to become a somewhat competent Kotlin developer, I've decided to implement a few of the basic data structures that I've picked up during my three years of computer science studies. First up, we have a generic binary tree. This is an interesting case, because it lets us …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
I've recently started dabbling in some Kotlin, and have found it a very pleasant
experience. One of the first things I wanted to do was to create a standalone
.jar file, including the Kotlin runtime and any other dependencies. This,
as it turns out, was a bit tricky. In this …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
Whenever I find myself occupied with some monotonous task, I very much enjoy listening to podcasts. As programming is my number one passion, and Python is my favorite language, I tend to listen to podcasts that relate to them. In this post, I'll give a brief overview of my three …