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Kotlin Essentials
Become a Kotlin developer with our essentials course. Master the fundamentals of Kotlin through clear lessons, practical exercises, and a smooth learning curve. Ideal for those with some programming experience, this course will quickly equip you with essential skills to enhance your coding toolkit.
- Duration
- 13.5h of 4K content
- Lessons
- 44 lessons
By Daniel Ciocîrlan
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Course Roadmap
Skills You'll Learn
- Understand Kotlin in production environments and real projects
- Start contributing to Kotlin projects immediately
- Write applications for Android, server, web, and multiplatform
- Use the Kotlin type system, type inference, and generics
- Write expression-oriented code and use control structures fluently
- Build classes with constructors, properties, and methods
- Use nullables and null-safe operations
- Write extension functions and operator overloads
- Apply the singleton pattern with Kotlin objects
- Use inheritance, abstract classes, and interfaces
- Handle exceptions with Kotlin idioms
- Apply delegation and delegated properties
- Use collection APIs: map, flatMap, filter, fold and more
- Write lambdas and higher-order functions
Goal
New thinking tools
It’s time to learn Kotlin, a mega-powerful language with open doors to different platforms: desktop, mobile, web, and even all at once in the same project.
I made this course to give you essential Kotlin programming skills that will quickly get you active in any Kotlin project. You’ll get solid practice in Kotlin’s fundamentals, and syntax is the smallest part. With 100+ practical examples and exercises inspired from real-life experience, you’ll not only get the foundations right but some 2500+ lines of code under your belt.
And code is one thing, but this course has a deeper purpose: to teach you to think differently.
As we progress through the course, you’ll see that your mental model will start to change, and you’ll write more compact and powerful code, faster. By the end of the course, you’ll have your first application ready to build, deploy and ship, and I use it on my own pictures, on camera.
How This Course Works
Who is this course for?
Software engineers or students with some experience with at least another programming language. The language is not really important - what matters in this course is the mental model, and I’ll draw many similarities and differences with other programming languages, including Java, Scala, the C family, Python, JavaScript, and others.
If this is the first time you’re learning to code, you should do just fine in this course, but the pace might be a bit quick because I don’t cover the general computer science fundamentals.
Really, anyone looking to learn Kotlin hands-on is welcome in this course, and you’ll get a solid 2500 lines of code in this course and your first Kotlin JVM application ready to use, among a hundred other examples and exercises.
Not sure if it’s for you? Money back if it’s not a fit 💰
**This screenshot shows you the code that we’ll write together.
Platform Agnostic
Many people learn Kotlin to build Android apps. Like the Kotlin Essentials course, this advanced course does not focus on Android, but on Kotlin itself.
The skills you get in this course will allow you to build complex systems, libraries and tools for other developers. Notice that this applies to Android, the JVM, native code, KotlinJS, or anything else - this course transcends any platform!
If you are specifically looking for an Android course, this course is still useful because after you finish this course, you can study the Android specifics without thinking too much about Kotlin - because by this time it will be second nature to you.
Regardless of what your goal is, this Kotlin course will help you no matter where you deploy your code.
100% Practical
As always, code is king, and we write it from scratch.
We don’t waste time on endless theory, and I only use a few slides every lesson as “flashcards” you can come back to. You’ll also get the slides in PDF for easy recall.
Besides the dozens of examples that demonstrate the most complex Kotlin features, we spend a lot of time in real-life exercises, where we try to write (at small scale) the same kind of tools you’d be in charge of at work.
The picture you see here is a mini-library we write in the course for HTML rendering with a nice DSL.
In the process, you’ll get hands-on experience not only with the hard Kotlin features, but you’ll get a sense of what it’s like to write complex code for other people.
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What's Included
6 sections
44 lessons
13h 27m total length
Object-Oriented Programming in Kotlin
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Object-Oriented Kotlin Features
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Epilogue
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Meet Rock the JVM
Daniel Ciocîrlan
Founder, Rock the JVM
I'm a software engineer and the founder of Rock the JVM.
I started Rock the JVM out of love for Scala and the technologies it powers. They are amazing tools, and I want to share as much of my experience with them as I can.
I've taught Java, Scala, Kotlin and related technologies such as Cats, ZIO and Spark to 100,000+ students at various levels. I've held live training sessions for companies including Adobe and Apple, taught university students who now work at Google and Facebook, run Hour of Code for 7-year-olds, and taught more than 50,000+ kids to code.
I have a Master's Degree in Computer Science and I wrote my Bachelor and Master thesis on Quantum Computation. Before learning programming, I won medals at international Physics competitions.
With Special Thanks To
Riccardo Cardin, one of the best Rock the JVM alumni, now a senior software engineer and an important contributor on the Rock the JVM blog, focusing on high-performance systems in Scala, Kotlin and Java. Big thanks, Riccardo, for reviewing the code I prepared for this course.
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