Kotlin Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 2nd Edition

1 Your First Kotlin Application

In this chapter you will write your first Kotlin program, using IntelliJ IDEA. While completing this programming rite of passage, you will familiarize yourself with your development environment, create a new Kotlin project, write and run Kotlin code, and inspect the resulting output. The project you create in this chapter will serve as a testing bed for the fundamental language features you will use throughout your Kotlin applications.