Hello everyone, I just wanted to know if a new edition of this book will be released soon to reflect the latest updates in Dart.
I’m still a beginner, so I don’t really know if there are any major changes or differences between the latest update and version 2.18, but I think I’d prefer to learn from an up-to-date source. So, it would be great if there is a new edition.
Sorry for the late reply. Unfortunately, Kodeco doesn’t have any current plans to release an updated version of this book.
That said, I can’t think of anything that would prevent you from using the current edition of the book to learn Dart. Dart 3 didn’t break Dart 2. It mainly just added some advanced capabilities. The fundamentals are still the same. If you run into any examples that don’t work in the book (they should still all work), feel free to ask here and I’ll try to reply more promptly.
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Bummer. I was thinking about getting into Dart and Flutter, but I’d prefer to use tutorials that are at least near the current version, which is 3.10.8 now. I may decide to buy the first edition, but it sounds like I would be possibly missing out on coverage of newer features. I would think Kodeco would want to keep up to date.
Whether or not you use Kodeco books, I highly encourage you to to pursue Dart and Flutter. The ability to deploy to both Android and iOS from a single code base is amazing. I’ve been building Flutter apps for over seven years now and still love it.
Flutter and Dart haven’t had major breaking changes in the last few years so I would expect the Kodeco books to still be fine to learn from, but I can understand your desire to have updated books. For the Dart books, Isolates have changed a little bit, but not a lot of the other things have changed from the content I wrote in the existing book versions.