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Ayden

08/15/2018, 12:24 PM
If I don't have the fundamental or knowledge about Java. Can I start to learn Kotlin directly?
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karelpeeters

08/15/2018, 12:26 PM
Do you know any Java?
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Ayden

08/15/2018, 12:32 PM
Few years I never touch about Java. Most of the fundamental knowledge already forgot.
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dalexander

08/15/2018, 12:32 PM
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.
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karelpeeters

08/15/2018, 12:34 PM
And the standard library is heavily based on Java too.
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Ayden

08/15/2018, 12:50 PM
Which mean I still need to learn Java to understand those libraries?
So which mean I should step one step backward to learn Java first before I come here?
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Steven McLaughlin

08/15/2018, 12:56 PM
Not necessarily. You don't need to know java or those libraries. It would just be helpful. You can learn kotlin by itself
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dalexander

08/15/2018, 1:00 PM
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.
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Ayden

08/15/2018, 2:10 PM
Thanks all.