We believe that Kotlin is a great language to get started out with. Let's imagine I am pretty new for programming and want to learn Kotlin first. He told me about JetBrains Educational Products, whose mission is to make the lives of everyone who wants to learn or teach programming easier. I made an interview with Sebastian Aigner, a Kotlin Developer Advocate at JetBrains.

You really want to find the best learning material available and leverage your existing skills*. That's the right question because Time is you most valuable resource. What is the most efficient way for you to learn Kotlin? If you are interested in any of this, the first question is: But early adopters are building interesting things in lots of other areas as well, like improving Gradle with Kotlin, Data Science, sharing code between iOS and Android, using Kotlin on the frontend most notably JetBrains Space, command-line tools with Kotlin/Native. Kotlin is mostly known right now for backend programming and Android. I am a Kotlin enthusiast because it's in the Venn diagram of well-designed languages that are also a good choice in practice because of its pragmatism and its tooling.

This is an edited version of an interview I have done that explain the best ways to learn Kotlin depending on your background : are you a beginner or do you have serious Java skills? Do you like books or do you like learning by doing? Do you want a no-install browser experience or do you want to experience a powerful IDE? I hope it empowers you to get started with Kotlin!

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