Kotlin in Education (Talking Kotlin #101)

0:00 Talking weather
2:30 Kotlin in education overview
6:36 Why bring Kotlin to academia
12:35 Kotlin for teaching programming concepts
17:40 What are the challenges in convincing educators to adopt Kotlin
21:10 Kotlin at ICPC and competitive programming
27:53 Resources and ways to connect

We’ll learn about the following:
- What shapes the demand and choice for programming languages in education, from industry demand to academic recognition.
- How educators can use Kotlin to convey different programming paradigms and concepts, from imperative to functional programming.
- Why educators love the Kotlin language.
- Ksenia will give us some insight into how she approaches educators, and the process educators usually take when evaluating and adopting a new programming language. Seb will reminisce over some university course stories of his own, and recount some of his attempts to convince professors to use Kotlin in their classrooms.
- We’ll talk about Kotlin’s role in the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), a yearly global programming olympiad involving over 9000 universities and hundreds of events. Kotlin is one of the official languages used by some teams during the world finals. We’ll also discuss the connection between these contests and Kotlin team members.
- As the “language of Android”, Ksenia will mention some of the initiatives that Google have launched to help promote the adoption of Kotlin, including train-the-trainer sessions for dozens of universities.

#education #kotlin #teaching #computerscience

[roargronmo]

I "fell into" kotlin for two yr's ago, I'm soon 51 yr's old, soo... I think it MUST be easy to learn...

[haseebpavaratty]

Man I'm loving these videos. Great work guys!

[JayDonga]

I got chance to meet Hadi when he visited India. He is great person to talk to!

[mohanaggarwal]

Really great video, thanks for this, kotlin should be added in academic courses, i just literally enjoyed watching this video, thanks again, love❤️ from India 😊😊😊👍

[Salamakii]

Just be careful not to spoil the students when they start with Kotlin. I can't imagine their disappointment when they see how the other languages look like 😂

[noraltavir]

It would be nice to have regional summer kotlin camps or something like this. Organized by Universities of course, but with a little kick from JB.