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KOTLIN SYLLABUS

1. Introduction to Kotlin 3. Control Flow Statements

What is Kotlin? If-Else Expressions

History and Features of Kotlin When Expression (Switch Case Alternative)

Installing Kotlin (CLI, IDEs: IntelliJ IDEA, Loops: for, while, do-while
Android Studio)

Ranges (downTo, step, until)

Writing and Running a Kotlin Program

Break, Continue, and Return

Kotlin vs Java vs Other Languages

4. Functions in Kotlin

2. Kotlin Basics Function Declaration and Calling

Variables (val, var, lateinit) Default and Named Arguments

Data Types and Type Inference Single Expression Functions

Type Conversion Higher-Order Functions

Operators (Arithmetic, Logical, Bitwise, Lambda Expressions

Relational, Assignment)

Inline Functions
String Templates and String Manipulation

Recursive Functions
Comments in Kotlin

Tail Recursion
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5. Object-Oriented Programming
(OOP) in Kotlin Iterating over Collections (forEach, map, filter,
reduce)

Classes and Objects

Mutable vs Immutable Collections

Constructors (Primary & Secondary)

Properties and Fields (Getters, Setters) 7. Null Safety and Smart Casting

Access Modifiers (public, private, protected, Nullable Types (? Operator)

internal)

Safe Call (?.) and Elvis Operator (?:)

Data Classes

Smart Casting (is, as, !! Operator)

Inheritance and Method Overriding

Let, Apply, Also, Run, With Scope Functions

Abstract Classes and Interfaces

Sealed Classes and Sealed Interfaces

8. Exception Handling

6. Kotlin Collections & Data Try, Catch, Finally Blocks

Structures

Multiple Catch Blocks

Arrays (IntArray, CharArray, Array<T>)

Throwing Exceptions
Lists (MutableList, List)

Custom Exceptions
Sets (Set, MutableSet)

Maps (HashMap, LinkedHashMap, TreeMap)

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9. Kotlin Standard Library Functions 11. File Handling & I/O Operations

let, run, with, apply, also Reading & Writing Files in Kotlin

takeIf, takeUnless Working with File Streams

lazy Initialization BufferedReader and BufferedWriter

Lateinit vs Lazy Reading JSON & XML Files

10. Coroutines and Multithreading 12. Functional Programming in

Kotlin
Introduction to Coroutines
Higher-Order Functions

Launching Coroutines (launch, async,

withContext) Lambda Expressions

Coroutine Builders (runBlocking, async, Inline Functions

launch)

Anonymous Functions
CoroutineScope and CoroutineContext

Function References
Dispatchers (Main, IO, Default, Unconfined)

Currying and Partial Functions

Structured Concurrency

Exception Handling in Coroutines

Channels and Flows

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13. Generics in Kotlin 16. DSL (Domain Specific Language)
in Kotlin
Generic Functions
Creating a Simple DSL

Generic Classes
Kotlin DSL vs Regular Kotlin

Type Constraints
Writing Custom DSLs

Covariance and Contravariance

17. Interoperability with Java

14. Reflection in Kotlin Calling Java Code from Kotlin

Kotlin Reflection API Calling Kotlin Code from Java

Class References (::class) Null Safety with Java

Function References (::function) Using @JvmStatic, @JvmOverloads,

@JvmField

Property References (::property)

18. Advanced Kotlin Features

Operator Overloading
15. Annotations and
MetaProgramming
Delegation (by keyword)

Built-in Annotations (@Deprecated,

@JvmStatic, @JvmOverloads) Inline Classes

Custom Annotations Type Aliases

Annotation Targets and Retention Contracts

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19. Android Development with 20. Kotlin for Backend Development
Kotlin (Ktor & Spring Boot)

Introduction to Android Studio Introduction to Ktor Framework

Setting up Kotlin in Android Creating REST APIs with Ktor

Activities and Fragments Dependency Injection with Koin

Views and ViewBinding Working with Databases (Exposed, Hibernate)

RecyclerView and Adapters Authentication & Authorization in Ktor

Navigation Component Kotlin with Spring Boot

MVVM Architecture

Dependency Injection with Dagger/Hilt 21. Kotlin Multiplatform

Development (KMP)
Room Database (SQLite)

Introduction to Kotlin Multiplatform

LiveData and ViewModel

Shared Business Logic

Retrofit for Networking

Kotlin Multiplatform with Android & iOS

Jetpack Compose Basics

Kotlin/Native and Kotlin/JS

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22. Jetpack Compose (Modern UI Multiplatform Coroutines
for Android)
Metaprogramming with Kotlin

Basics of Jetpack Compose

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State Management in Compose

Lazy Lists & Grids

Themes and Material Design

Navigation in Jetpack Compose

23. Testing in Kotlin

Unit Testing (JUnit, KotlinTest, MockK)

UI Testing (Espresso, UI Automator)

Integration Testing

Test-Driven Development (TDD)

24. Advanced Kotlin Topics

Compiler Plugins

Writing Custom Annotations and Code

Generation