Kotlin for Java Developers

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Course

Lecture 1: Introduction From Tim Buchalka

Lecture 2: Introduction to the course

Lecture 3: JDK8 Install Windows

Lecture 4: JDK8 Install Mac

Lecture 5: JDK8 Install Linux

Lecture 6: Intellij Windows Install and Configure

Lecture 7: Intellij Mac Install and Configure

Lecture 8: Intellij Linux Install and Configure

Lecture 9: IntelliJ Kotlin Settings

Chapter 2: Introduction to Kotlin

Lecture 1: Introduction to Section 2

Lecture 2: Introduction to Kotlin

Lecture 3: The Java Text Adventure Game

Lecture 4: The Converted Kotlin Text Adventure Game

Lecture 5: IDEA's Java to Kotlin Converter

Chapter 3: Basic Differences Between Kotlin and Java

Lecture 1: Introduction to Section 3

Lecture 2: Hello World from Kotlin

Lecture 3: The Kotlin Standard Library

Lecture 4: Variable Declarations in Kotlin

Lecture 5: How to Create Type Aliases in Kotlin

Lecture 6: Quick Differences Between Kotlin and Java

Lecture 7: How Kotlin handles equality differently from Java

Lecture 8: Bit Operators and Smart Casting in Kotlin

Lecture 9: String Templates in Kotlin

Lecture 10: Raw Strings in Kotlin

Lecture 11: The Kotlin REPL

Lecture 12: Kotlin Challenges (Round One)

Chapter 4: Data Types and Null Reference Handling

Lecture 1: Introduction to Section 4

Lecture 2: The Builtin Dataypes in Kotlin

Lecture 3: Arrays in Kotlin

Lecture 4: Null References in Kotlin – Part One

Lecture 5: Null References in Kotlin – Part Two

Lecture 6: Arrays and Null References

Lecture 7: Kotlin Challenges (Round Two)

Chapter 5: OO and Kotlin: Classes, Functions, Inheritance

Lecture 1: Introduction to Section 5

Lecture 2: Kotlin's Access Modifiers

Lecture 3: Declaring Classes and Using Constructors in Kotlin

Lecture 4: Properties and Backing Fields in Kotlin

Lecture 5: Constants and Data Classes

Lecture 6: Kotlin Function Basics

Lecture 7: Extension Functions

Lecture 8: Inline Functions

Lecture 9: Inheritance in Kotlin – Part One

Lecture 10: Inheritance in Kotlin – Part Two

Lecture 11: Interfaces in Kotlin

Lecture 12: Singletons in Kotlin

Lecture 13: Companion Objects in Kotlin

Lecture 14: Anonymous Objects in Kotlin

Lecture 15: Enums in Kotlin

Lecture 16: Imports in Kotlin

Lecture 17: The Internal Access Modifier

Lecture 18: Kotlin Challenges (Round Three, Part 1)

Lecture 19: Kotlin Challenges (Round Three, Part 2)

Chapter 6: Loops, and the If, When, and Try/Catch Expressions

Lecture 1: Introduction to Section 6

Lecture 2: The For Loop

Lecture 3: The If Expression

Lecture 4: The When Expression

Lecture 5: The Try/Catch Expression

Lecture 6: Kotlin Challenges (Round Four)

Chapter 7: Lambda Expressions, Collections, and Generics

Lecture 1: Introduction to Section 7

Lecture 2: Lambda Expression Basics

Lecture 3: Lambdas With Receivers

Lecture 4: Lists

Lecture 5: Kotlin Collections Functions

Lecture 6: Maps and Destructuring Declarations

Lecture 7: Sets in Kotlin

Lecture 8: More Collections Functions in Kotlin

Lecture 9: Sequences in Kotlin

Lecture 10: Generics in Kotlin

Lecture 11: Generics: Functions and Erasure

Lecture 12: Generics: Reified Parameters in Kotlin

Lecture 13: Generics: Covariance

Lecture 14: Generics: Contravariance

Lecture 15: Generics: Use-Site Variance

Lecture 16: Kotlin Challenges (Round Five)

Chapter 8: File I/O

Lecture 1: Introduction to Section 8

Lecture 2: Reading Text Files

Lecture 3: Reading Binary Files and Try with Resources

Lecture 4: Walking the File Tree

Chapter 9: Java Interoperability

Lecture 1: Introduction to Section 9

Lecture 2: Nullability when using Java from Kotlin

Lecture 3: More about calling Java from Kotlin

Lecture 4: Calling Kotlin Functions from Java

Lecture 5: Annotations when calling Kotlin from Java

Lecture 6: Kotlin Challenges (Round Six)

Chapter 10: Course Wrap Up

Lecture 1: Introduction to Section 10

Lecture 2: Revisit the Converted Kotlin Text Adventure

Lecture 3: Kotlin for Java Developers Wrap Up

Lecture 4: Tell Us What Content You Want Us To Add!

Chapter 11: Extra Information – Source code, and other stuff

Lecture 1: Source code