education

An important milestone of our educational initiatives is the release of a freely available semester-long Programming in Kotlin curriculum. The Programming in Kotlin course includes slides for 11 lectures covering core Kotlin programming language concepts complete with speaker notes. The course comes with assessment resources, such as quizzes, three tests, and four homework assignments with hands-on coding exercises. You can use the curriculum as-is or adjust it to fit your educational needs.

Join us for a special livestream for Kotlin educators on Jun 21, 2023 at 16:00 UTC! Our guest, Anastasia Birillo, is a Kotlin developer and instructor, an active member of the Kotlin community, and one of the authors of the ‘Programming in Kotlin’ course materials. Anastasia is teaching this course at Constructor University in Bremen, Germany and Neapolis University Pafos, Cyprus. During this livestream, Anastasia will share her teaching experience and the new course materials, designed specifically for Kotlin educators and available for free. You will also have the opportunity to ask questions and get them answered during the Q&A part of the livestream.

Collaborative learning, when learners work together on a shared assignment, makes for a highly-engaged process. Through hearing diverse thoughts, articulating arguments, and brainstorming, learners tend to achieve more complete knowledge and skills as a group than they could individually. Code Wi…

Join us on Thursday, August 11, 2022, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm UTC, for our free live webinar, Kotlin and Code With Me: Tips for Collaborative Programming, Teaching, and Learning.

We invite you to join us for the livestream Kotlin Basics Track Tour With a JetBrains Academy Expert, featuring Dmitry Sitnikov, JetBrains Academy Expert and consulting software engineer. The livestream will start at 3:00 PM UTC on Wednesday, February 16.  Use these links to save the date…

“Always bet on the future. If you’re not willing to, it’s hard to enjoy a life in technology.”Geoffrey Challen On November 23, we held a ‘Teaching Introductory Computer Science in Kotlin’ webinar, featuring Geoffrey Challen, Teaching Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Cha…

UPD: The recording is now available on YouTube.  We invite you to join us for a live webinar, ‘Teaching Introductory Computer Science in Kotlin’, featuring Geoffrey Challen, Teaching Associate Professor at the University of Illinois. Tuesday, November 23, at 4:00 PM UTC. (more&hellip…

This post continues our “Idiomatic Kotlin” series and provides the solution for the Advent of Code Day 9* challenge. While solving it, we’ll look into different ways to manipulate lists in Kotlin. Day 9. Encoding error, part I We need to attack a weakness in data encrypted with the eXchang…

Today in “Idiomatic Kotlin”, we’re solving another Advent of Code challenge. We will be simulating, diagnosing, and fixing a small, made up game console! If you have ever wanted to implement your own virtual machine or emulator for an existing system like a game console or a retro computing device, …

Let's describe our task briefly. We are airport luggage throwers handlers, and as often happens, there are some new regulations. This time, they stipulate that all bags be color-coded and contain a specific number of color-coded bags inside them. Weird, right? Well, rules are rules, so we must compl…

Grouping and counting the characters in strings and collections is a very typical task given in coding interviews. Usually, the solutions for such tasks are quite simple. In this blog post, we learn about a few useful functions in Kotlin that make set operations really simple. The task: custo…

Let’s continue our journey of understanding what “idiomatic Kotlin” means and solve one more puzzle from the Advent of Code challenge. The puzzles are independent of each other, so you don’t need to check any of the previous ones we’ve already covered. Simply read through the following solution or w…