What You will Learn?

• Course Overview: About Me, You, and this Course
• How to Run the Examples
• Kotlin Syntax Practice for Beginners
• Data Landscape: Memory Spaces and Named Addresses (References)
• How to use "val" and "const val" References to promote Immutability/Efficiency:
• Using "var" Reference Types, and the problems with Shared Mutable State!
• Giving Structure to Data with Classes
• A Fundamental Divide: Computation and Control Logic
• Computing Data means Solving Problems
• Controlling the Flow of Data
• Event Driven Programs
• Functional versus Imperative Program Style (mild introduction)
• What is Software Architecture?
• Separation of Concerns
• Dependency Inversion: Using Interfaces Effectively for Front End and Back End
• Extension versus Abstraction: Open/Closed Principle
• Dependency Injection: How, What, and Why?
• Inversion of Control via the Service Locator Pattern
• Proving Programs with Tests (a light introduction to Testing)
• Solving Problem (Domains) by Analysis