What is Kotlin - Hands-On Activity

What is Kotlin

📖 Scenario: You are curious about a modern programming language used to build apps and software. Kotlin is a popular choice for Android apps and more.

🎯 Goal: Learn the basics of Kotlin by creating a simple program that shows what Kotlin is.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a variable with a description of Kotlin

Create a variable with a simple example of Kotlin code

Print the description and example

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Kotlin is widely used to build Android apps and server-side applications.

💼 Career

Knowing Kotlin is valuable for Android developers and software engineers working with modern, concise code.

1

Create a variable with a description of Kotlin

Create a variable called description and set it to the string "Kotlin is a modern programming language used for Android and more."

Kotlin

# Create a variable called description with the given text
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use val to create a variable and assign the exact string.

2

Create a variable with a simple Kotlin example

Create a variable called example and set it to the string "fun main() { println(\"Hello, Kotlin!\") }"

Kotlin

val description = "Kotlin is a modern programming language used for Android and more."
# Create a variable called example with the given Kotlin code as a string
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Remember to escape quotes inside the string with \".

3

Print the description

Use println(description) to print the description variable.

Kotlin

val description = "Kotlin is a modern programming language used for Android and more."
val example = "fun main() { println(\"Hello, Kotlin!\") }"
# Print the description variable
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use println to show the text stored in description.

4

Print the Kotlin example code

Use println(example) to print the example variable.

Kotlin

val description = "Kotlin is a modern programming language used for Android and more."
val example = "fun main() { println(\"Hello, Kotlin!\") }"
println(description)
# Print the example variable
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Print the example variable to show the Kotlin code example.