If I don't have the fundamental or knowledge about...

# getting-started

[Ayden]

If I don't have the fundamental or knowledge about Java. Can I start to learn Kotlin directly?

[karelpeeters]

Do you know any Java?

[Ayden]

Few years I never touch about Java. Most of the fundamental knowledge already forgot.

[dalexander]

You can learn Kotlin without knowing any Java, but knowing Java will help because Kotlin leans on the Java ecosystem for libraries and so forth.

[karelpeeters]

And the standard library is heavily based on Java too.

[Ayden]

Which mean I still need to learn Java to understand those libraries?

[Ayden]

So which mean I should step one step backward to learn Java first before I come here?

[Steven McLaughlin]

Not necessarily. You don't need to know java or those libraries. It would just be helpful. You can learn kotlin by itself

[dalexander]

Right, you’ll just run into challenges looking at Java sample code in docs and so forth. But I wouldn’t expect it to be that difficult, because Kotlin and Java do have a lot of syntactic similarities, and there’s a tool in IDEA what will convert Java code to Kotlin.

[Ayden]

Thanks all.