The Ultimate Guide to Kotlin Programming

Beginner

156 Lessons

20h

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182 Playgrounds

34 Quizzes

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182 Playgrounds

34 Quizzes

Course Overview

Kotlin has been growing in popularity among developers for some time. It was given even more recognition when Google announced in 2019 that Kotlin was now their preferred language for Android development. In this comprehensive course, you’ll start by learning the fundamentals, such as: how Java and Kotlin differ, how to work with functions, and how to utilize collections, something you’ll work with extensively in Kotlin. In the latter half of the course, you’ll be introduced to more advanced concepts lik...Show More

Course Content

Getting Started

Introduction Who's This Course for?

What's in this course?

Hello Kotlin

Introduction to Kotlin

Reasons to Love Kotlin Why Should You Choose Kotlin?Taking Kotlin for a Ride Compile to Bytecode and Run Compiling to Other Targets Which Option to Choose?Wrapping Up

Kotlin Essentials for the Java Eyes

Introduction to Kotlin Essentials

Less Typing Sensible Warnings Prefer val over var Improved Equality Check String Templates Raw Strings More Expressions, Fewer Statements Wrapping Up

Working with Functions

Introduction to Functions in Kotlin Creating Functions Default and Named Arguments vararg and Spread Destructuring Wrapping Up

External Iteration and Argument Matching

Introduction to External Iteration with Argument Matching Range and Iteration Iterating over Arrays and Lists When It’s Time to Use when Wrapping Up

Using Collections

8 Lessons

Type Safety to Save the Day

8 Lessons

Objects and Classes

7 Lessons

Class Hierarchies and Inheritance

7 Lessons

10.

Extension Through Delegation

9 Lessons

11.

Functional Programming with Lambdas

8 Lessons

12.

Internal Iteration and Lazy Evaluation

5 Lessons

13.

Fluency in Kotlin

8 Lessons

14.

Creating Internal DSLs

7 Lessons

15.

Programming Recursion and Memoization

6 Lessons

16.

Exploring Coroutines

9 Lessons

17.

Asynchronous Programming

5 Lessons

18.

Intermixing Java and Kotlin

5 Lessons

19.

Unit Testing with Kotlin

13 Lessons

20.

Programming Spring Applications with Kotlin

9 Lessons

21.

Writing Android Applications with Kotlin

8 Lessons

22.

Appendix

3 Lessons

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