Kotlin Crash Course for Programmers

Beginner

29 Lessons

Certificate of Completion

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This course includes

117 Playgrounds

22 Quizzes

This course includes

117 Playgrounds

22 Quizzes

Course Overview

Kotlin is quickly joining the ranks of the most popular programming languages. Now that Google supports Kotlin for Android app development as the primary choice over Java, we’ll only see more developers making the switch. So if you’re looking to get started with Android app development, then you’ve come to the right place. This course will be your guide on getting started with Kotlin. We’ll go over all the language basics including variable declarations, data types and the type system to conditions, loops,...Show More

What You'll Learn

Confidence using Kotlin

Strong understanding of Kotlin fundamentals

Ability to write own applications and scripts using Kotlin

What You'll Learn

Confidence using Kotlin

Course Content

Hello Kotlin!

Brief Introduction

Kotlin Overview: Principles and Goals Following this Course

Variables and Data Types

Read-Only vs Mutable Variables

Basic Data Types

Kotlin's Type Inference Nullable Types

Conditions

Conditions with `if`Conditions with `when`Conditions as Expressions

Collections

Lists Sets Arrays Maps

Loops

`while` Loops `for` Loops

Functions

7 Lessons

Equality Checks

2 Lessons

Exception Handling

2 Lessons

Summary

2 Lessons

Course Author

Trusted by 1.4 million developers working at companies

Anthony Walker

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Emma Bostian 🐞

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Evan Dunbar

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Carlos Matias La Borde

Software Developer

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Front-end Developer

Vinay Krishnaiah

Software Developer

Eric Downs

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DevOps Engineer

Anthony Walker

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Emma Bostian 🐞

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