2019 Kotlin Certified: 2-day training by Big Nerd Ranch (Chicago, IL)

Get your Kotlin training from a Certified JetBrains partner, Big Nerd Ranch.

Students will walk away with the confidence they need to leverage Kotlin to create cleaner code + Upon completion, students will earn a Big Nerd Ranch Graduate Certification in Kotlin Fundamentals.

Cost includes:

• 2 full days of instruction

• Kotlin Programming: Big Nerd Ranch Guide

• Coffee/Tea and Snacks

• Networking opportunities

$1500 In-Person

$750 Online (Corporate teams having at least 1 in-person | Remote individuals limited to 5)

WHAT WILL WE COVER?

The Basics

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

• Work with conditionals & control flow statements and gain the additional support of control flow statements as assignable expressions

• Learn about nullable and non-nullable types and how to work with null safely

• Understand exceptions & how they may be safely handled

• Learn about the standard functions included with Kotlin's standard library: let, apply, also, takeIf, and run

Collections and Functions

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

• See how to work with data using for loops, while loops, break, and continue

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

• Learn about defining package and file level functions and specifying their return types

• Use the function type to define functions that accept other functions, and learn how to optimize them by using the inlining feature of the Kotlin compiler

• Use the functional programming features of Kotlin to clean up code, including map, flatMap, filter, and reduce, as well as how to define your own functional operators and higher order functions.

Objects, Inheritance, and Extensions

• Work with object-oriented programming concepts

• Learn about primary and secondary constructors, equality, and preconditions for object construction

• Learn how to use data classes and enums to represent data and algebraic data types

• Override classes, and define abstract, open or closed classes

• Use Kotlin's built-in singleton implementation

• Understand extension functions to safely add behavior to classes you don't control.
  

Advanced Kotlin

• Learn how to interoperate with Java classes and supports Java compatibility.

• Explore Kotlin’s platform independence

• Use coroutines to spin up lightweight threads for doing work in the background

• Use extensions with receivers to define a domain-specific language

Instructor:  Author of Kotlin Programming: Big Nerd Ranch Guide