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    Kotlin is a statically typed programming language that is fully interoperable with Java. It was developed by JetBrains as an alternative to Java for Android development. Some key features include null safety, data classes, and interoperability with Java. Variables in Kotlin are declared using val for immutable values and var for mutable values. Statements express actions and end with semicolons, though semicolons are optional in Kotlin.

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    Kotlin is a statically typed programming language that is fully interoperable with Java. It was developed by JetBrains as an alternative to Java for Android development. Some key features include null safety, data classes, and interoperability with Java. Variables in Kotlin are declared using val for immutable values and var for mutable values. Statements express actions and end with semicolons, though semicolons are optional in Kotlin.

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    Kotlin is a statically typed programming language that is fully interoperable with Java. It was developed by JetBrains as an alternative to Java for Android development. Some key features include null safety, data classes, and interoperability with Java. Variables in Kotlin are declared using val for immutable values and var for mutable values. Statements express actions and end with semicolons, though semicolons are optional in Kotlin.

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    Introduction of

    Kotlin programing
    language
    Abaarso Tech University
    Introduction
    Kotlin is a statically typed, general-purpose programming language developed by JetBrains,
    that has built world-class IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA, PhpStorm, Appcode, etc. It was first
    introduced by JetBrains in 2011 and a new language for the JVM. Kotlin is object-oriented
    language, and a “better language” than Java, but still be fully interoperable with Java code.

    Kotlin is sponsored by Google, announced as one of the official languages for Android
    Development in 2017.

    Example of kotlin

    fun main()

    println("Hello Geeks");

    }
    Key features of Kotlin
    1. Statically typed – Statically typed is a programming language characteristic that
    means the type of every variable and expression is known at compile time. Although
    it is statically typed language, it does not require you to explicitly specify the type of
    every variable you declare.
    2. Data Classes– In Kotlin, there are Data Classes which lead to auto-generation of
    boilerplate like equals, hashCode, toString, getters/setters and much more.
    3. Safe – It provides the safety from most annoying and irritating NullPointerExceptions
    by supporting nullability as part of its system.
    4. Interoperability: Kotlin is highly interoperable with Java. You would not face any
    difficulty using Kotlin in a Java project.
    Advantages of Kotlin language
    ● Easy to learn – Basic is almost similar to java.If anybody worked in java then easily
    understand in no time.
    ● Kotlin is multi-platform – Kotlin is supported by all IDEs of java so you can write your
    program and execute them on any machine which supports JVM.
    ● It’s much safer than Java.
    ● It allows using the Java frameworks and libraries in your new Kotlin projects by using
    advanced frameworks without any need to change the whole project in Java.
    ● Kotlin programming language, including the compiler, libraries and all the tooling is
    completely free and open source and available on github. Here is the link for Github
    https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin
    Basics of Kotlin
    For any language, there are three constructs primarily to learn before going to advanced
    level.
    ● Learning alphabets for language is leaning variables in programming
    ● Constructing sentences with learned alphabets is like coding statements with
    variables
    ● Combining sentences together to form paragraph for language is like writing
    functions with a block of statements in programming
    Variables
    Variables are used in all programming languages and they serve one unique purpose of
    holding values. Variables are used to hold values. To declare a variable we mainly need
    to know the name, type of variable, initializing is like assigning a value to that variable.
    Kotlin basically needs two keywords to declare variables: val and var.
    ● val variables are “read-only”. We use val for the variables whose value never
    changes. We can't reassign the value of a variable that was declared using the
    keyword val.
    ● We use var for a variable whose value can change. We can reassign the value at any
    point of time after it’s declaration.
    Statements
    A statement is the syntactic unit of any programming language that expresses some action
    to be carried out. A program is formed by the sequence of one or more statements. In Java,
    a statement always ends with a semicolon but, in Koltin semicolon(;) is optional.

    Declaration of a variable is a statement.


    Val marks = 90
    var grade = 'A'
    Assigning a value to a variable is also a statement.
    var sum = 10 + 20 // it is a statement
    Here, 10 + 20 is an expression but var sum = 10 + 20 is a statement.

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