Programming in Kotlin: Fundamentals

You’ve finished the first part of this course! Way to go folks! :]

It sure was tough, there were many new concepts you’ve covered and practiced using challenges, and I can only imagine how excited you are to head over to the second part! .

But let’s first take a moment to reflect upon the things you’ve learned.

You started off with a few concepts like using vals and vars to define values in code. var meaning the value can change while val meaning you can assign the value only once because it is a constant.

You also tackled data types in Kotlin, like the String and Int types.

You knew the basics of creating, converting and comparing values, and using if statements to branch out your code.

And finally, you learned how to use some basic Kotlin functions.

After this part, you’ve added quite a bit to your pool of knowledge.

You learned about Booleans, and how to compare and combine them into powerful expressions.

Then you proceeded to use those Booleans in if/else statements to perform different operations in your code depending on the condition.

You also learned how to use logical operators to combine different conditions that evaluates to a boolean.

That was a lot of ground to cover, but hopefully you’ve been enjoying our deep dive into kotlin, and are having fun experimenting in IntelliJ Idea so far.

Alright!!! In the next part you’ll learn about managning the flow of your programs.

See you there.