The Essential Kotlin Programming Course (Android Developers)

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Welcome to Class!

Lecture 2: Class Organization

Lecture 3: Overview of Kotlin

Lecture 4: Language Features

Lecture 5: Object Oriented Programming

Lecture 6: Functional Programming

Lecture 7: Advantages of Using Kotlin

Chapter 2: Installing the Required Software

Lecture 1: Installing the JDK (Java Development Kit)

Lecture 2: Intstalling the IntelliJ IDEA (Integrated Development Environment)

Chapter 3: Starting to Write Code

Lecture 1: Kotlin Tools

Lecture 2: Creating an IntelliJ Project

Lecture 3: Exploring the IntelliJ Environment

Lecture 4: Compiling and Running your first application (Hello World)

Lecture 5: Variations of the Hello World Program (code along)

Chapter 4: Miscellaneous

Lecture 1: Packages

Lecture 2: Comments

Chapter 5: Variables and Data Types

Lecture 1: Overview

Lecture 2: Static Typing and Type Inference

Lecture 3: Mutable and Immutable Variables

Lecture 4: Basic Data Types

Lecture 5: Program to print the area of a rectangle (Code Along)

Lecture 6: A program to convert minutes to years and days (code along)

Lecture 7: String and String Templates

Lecture 8: A program that demonstrates Strings and String Templates (code along)

Lecture 9: Any and Any? Types

Lecture 10: The Unit Type (void)

Lecture 11: The Nothing Type (never returns)

Lecture 12: Explicit Casts and Smart Casts

Lecture 13: SmartCast Example (code along)

Chapter 6: Operators

Lecture 1: Basic Operators

Lecture 2: Other Operators (in, index, invoke, is)

Lecture 3: Using the in Operator, Example (code along)

Chapter 7: Nullability

Lecture 1: Nullable Types

Lecture 2: Safe Call Operator (?)

Lecture 3: Elvis Operator (?:)

Lecture 4: as? (Safe Cast) Operator

Lecture 5: Not Null Assertions (!!)

Lecture 6: A program that demonstrates Null Safety (code along)

Chapter 8: Control Flow

Lecture 1: Overview

Lecture 2: If Statements and Expression

Lecture 3: When Statement and Expression

Lecture 4: A program that demonstrates the When construct (code along)

Lecture 5: While and Do-While loops

Lecture 6: Ranges and Progressions

Lecture 7: For Loop

Lecture 8: return and jump

Lecture 9: Guess the Number Program (code along)

Chapter 9: Functions

Lecture 1: Basics

Lecture 2: Top Level Functions

Lecture 3: Member and Local Functions

Lecture 4: Named Parameters/Arguments

Lecture 5: Default Parameters/Arguments

Lecture 6: Infix Calls

Lecture 7: Variable Arguments (var-args) and the Spread Operator

Lecture 8: Overloaded Functions

Lecture 9: A program that demonstrates method overloading (code along)

Lecture 10: Extension Functions

Chapter 10: Standard Library Functions

Lecture 1: apply, let, and with

Lecture 2: run, lazy, and use

Lecture 3: repeat, (require, assert, and check)

Chapter 11: Operator Overloading

Lecture 1: Overview

Lecture 2: Compound Assignment Operators and Unary Operators

Lecture 3: Comparison Operators

Chapter 12: Lambda Expressions

Lecture 1: Overview

Lecture 2: Higher Order Functions Part I

Lecture 3: Higher Order Functions Part II

Lecture 4: Variable Scope

Lecture 5: Use in the Java APIs

Lecture 6: Returning Functions from Functions

Lecture 7: Inline Functions

Chapter 13: Object Oriented Concepts

Lecture 1: Overview

Lecture 2: Classes

Lecture 3: Encapsulation

Lecture 4: Constructors

Lecture 5: Abstraction

Lecture 6: Interfaces

Lecture 7: Inheritance

Lecture 8: Polymorphism

Chapter 14: Object Oriented Programming in Kotlin

Lecture 1: Classes and Constructors

Lecture 2: Properties

Lecture 3: Visibility Modifiers

Lecture 4: Inner and Nested Classes

Lecture 5: Interfaces

Lecture 6: Inheritance

Lecture 7: A Bank Account Program (code along)

Lecture 8: Data Classes and Delegation