Learn Dart: First Step to Flutter - Free AI-Powered Course

Learn Dart: First Step to Flutter

This is a beginner-friendly course on learning the Dart language and mastering its fundamentals to build high-quality mobile apps with Flutter.

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88 Lessons

Certificate of Completion

This is a beginner-friendly course on learning the Dart language and mastering its fundamentals to build high-quality mobile apps with Flutter.

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This course includes

140 Playgrounds

13 Challenges

7 Quizzes

This course includes

140 Playgrounds

13 Challenges

7 Quizzes

Course Overview

Learn Dart for free with this interactive course. Dart is a clean, simple, class-based, object-oriented language with more structure than JavaScript, the programming language it's heavily based on. However, you can't have a conversation about Dart without mentioning Flutter. Flutter is Google's mobile UI framework for crafting high-quality native interfaces on iOS and Android. Flutter applications are written using the Dart programming language, which has helped make Dart a beloved language by the develop...Show More

TAKEAWAY SKILLS

Dart

Programming Language

Flutter

Course Content

Introduction

This chapter introduces Dart as a foundational programming language for Flutter, highlighting its design, features, and benefits for app development.

Who Should Take this Course

A Bit About Dart

Dart Before You Flutter

Getting Started with Dart

The chapter focuses on creating your first Dart application, understanding the code, and building a simple interactive program.

Your First Dart Application

Understanding the Code

A Simple Interactive Program

Challenge: Displaying Output

Solution Review: Displaying Output

Chapter Quiz

Data Types and Variables

This chapter focuses on Dart's essential programming concepts, including objects, variables, data types, and their applications in coding structure and syntax.

A Brief Introduction to Objects

Challenge: Embed a Variable in a String

Solution Review: Embed a Variable in a String

Booleans

Type Inference and Annotation

Defining Constants

Chapter Quiz

Operators

In this chapter, you'll cover operators in Dart: arithmetic, relational, logical, and assignment, highlighting their usage and importance in programming.

An Introduction to Operators

Arithmetic Operators

Equality and Relational Operators

Type Test Operators

Assignment Operators

Logical Operators

Bitwise and Shift Operators

Challenge: Using Multiple Operators

Solution Review: Using Multiple Operators

Operator Precedence

Challenge: Temperature Conversion

Solution Review: Temperature Conversion

Chapter Quiz

Dart's Collection

This chapter focuses on Dart's collection types, including lists, sets, and maps, emphasizing their creation, manipulation, and functionality in programming.

Introduction to Functions and Methods

Introduction to Dart's Collection

List: The Dart Array

Working with Lists

Challenge: List of Cubes

Solution Review: List of Cubes

Unordered Sets

Working with Sets

Maps. Keys and Values

Working with Maps

Chapter Quiz

Control Flow Statements

18 Lessons

This chapter focuses on control flow statements in Dart, covering if statements, loops, and conditional constructs for effective code execution.

Exploring Functions

16 Lessons

In this chapter, you'll cover functions in Dart, including user-defined, recursive, higher-order, and anonymous functions, along with scoping rules.

Classes

8 Lessons

This chapter focuses on Dart classes, covering structure, object instantiation, constructors, getters/setters, and inheritance for effective programming.

Where to Go From Here

1 Lesson

In this chapter, you'll cover how to setup Flutter on different operating systems.

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