Hello! I'm beginning my first Kotlin course and I'm confused about the creation of objects. The instructor has created them in two different ways Method 1:

val myNewObject = NewObject(x,y,z)

Method 2:

val myNewObject: NewOject = NewObject(x,y,z)

Is there a practical reason that he declared the type of "myNewObject" in certain cases? It seems unnecessary.

without further surrounding context and assuming this code appears either in a function body or at the top level of a file it is indeed unnecessary here. You are required to declare the types of parameters explicitly, which means you could see code like the second in a class's primary constructor with a default value for the parameter.

Thank you for the explanation! I apologize for not supplying more context. I'm familiar with basic programming concepts to a degree, but mostly new to the pursuit as a whole.

welcome, it's a delightful field and kotlin is a lot of fun 🙂