I’m teaching a second year college course in Kotli...

# education

[Ashley]

I’m teaching a second year college course in Kotlin this year (part of a diploma program that teaches mobile app development). The course was previously taught in Swift, but we shifted our focus this year to Android/Kotlin, and so some parts of the course are being built as I go…

I thought I could get away with toy examples and problems for most of the course, but my students are really hungry for some good real-world examples that we can build/walkthrough/analyze. I don’t have anything on hand that I can use.

Does anyone have any suggestions on a good smallish project that I could use to demonstrate especially some aspects of OOP in Kotlin in a more practically-oriented way than the typical Vehicle > Car > Toyota approach? We’re just finishing a module on OOP then will be moving into functional, so something that I can use to compare and contrast would be even better…

[altavir]

I am not sure that it is relevant for mobile course, but one of the problems I gave last year is to do a text-based table database. Also there is a huge field for simple simulations.

[Ksenia Shneyveys]

Hi, Ashley! You might be familiar with the Google’s Android curriculum in Kotlin, they have some project examples there, as well as Codelabs.

[Arilson José de Oliveira Júnior]

Hi @Ashley, I guess you can use a simple pattern of communication with a data source to demonstrate some aspects of OOP. Consider the View -> Repository -> Data Source.
1. Your DS can have a method to access some data class;
2. You can explore some characteristics of the REPO, its constructor, properties and methods;
3. And in the View you can discuss about the use of one object of REPO and calls of methods

[Ashley]

Thanks for the suggestions!