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Kotlin Essentials

Kotlin Essentials

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Overview

Discover why Google has pinned Kotlin as the preferred language for Android development with this 2-day course. You will learn Kotlin development techniques and language principles, and will walk away knowing how to migrate existing Java projects to Kotlin.

Who Should Take This Course

  • Developers who are looking to explore the Kotlin language.

  • Developers who wish to see both object-oriented and functional programming paradigms implemented in a modern JVM language.

  • Developers interested in learning a language with multi-platform applications.

  • Android developers who want to learn new skills to advance their career.

  • Teams looking to upgrade their applications from Java to Kotlin.

 

Syllabus

The Basics

  • Understand writable and read-only properties and take a look at Kotlin’s type system.

  • Work with control flow statements as assignable expressions.

  • Learn about defining class- and file-level functions and specifying their return types.

  • Leverage Kotlin’s built-in numeric and string types.

  • Differentiate nullable and non-nullable types and how to work with null safely.

  • Understand safe exception handling in Kotlin.

Collections and Functional Programming

  • Learn how to represent series of data with mutable and read-only collection types.

  • Take a closer look at collections, including destructuring, type checking, smart casting, and type parameter constraints.

  • See how to pass functions as arguments, lambda notation, and function references.

  • Use functional programming paradigms to write complex algorithms using just a few operations, including map, flatMap, associate, filter, zip, and fold.

  • See Kotlin’s scope functions — apply, let, run, with, also, takeIf, and takeUnless — and use them to write more concise and idiomatic Kotlin code.

Objects Oriented Programming

  • Apply object-oriented programming concepts in Kotlin to define your own types.

  • Learn about constructors, preconditions, and initialization requirements for object creation.

  • Inherit and override class behavior using abstract and open classes.

  • Define general sets of behaviors using interfaces.

  • Learn how to use data classes and object declarations to create data wrappers and singletons with implementations that are automatically generated at compile time.

  • Learn how to define algebraic data types with enums and sealed classes.

  • See how to define value classes to create more efficient classes that wrap a single property.

Advanced Kotlin

  • Understand type variance and generic type parameters.

  • Use extensions to add functionality to a type without modifying the original class.

  • Leverage coroutines to efficiently and safely move work between threads.

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Anna Sherman, Developer, Carbon Five

I used other online free courses to learn basic Kotlin and some advanced topics. It was nice to have the classroom setting, with the Kotlin Essentials course, to gain better-detailed knowledge. I do feel more confident with the basics of Kotlin, and I am looking forward to taking the more advanced courses.

Steve Hamilton, Android Software Engineer, Disney

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