1 Your First Kotlin Application

In this chapter you will write your first Kotlin program, using IntelliJ IDEA. While completing this programming rite of passage, you will familiarize yourself with your development environment, create a new Kotlin project, write and run Kotlin code, and inspect the resulting output. The project you create in this chapter will serve as a sandbox to easily try out new concepts you will encounter throughout this book.

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