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Hello, Kotlin Friends (Kotlin Tutorial #0)

The Simplest Program in Kotlin

NOTE: In this tutorial, we are going to use IntelliJ IDEA IDE. You can get the Community Version for free here: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/

How To Create Our First Kotlin Project on IntelliJ IDEA

• Open IntelliJ. You should see a window like this. Select the “New Project” button:

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• Fill in the “name” and “Location” fields. In our case, we will select “Console Application” as the project template. The JDK will depend on your system (you can download it from IntelliJ):

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• In the next window, select the “Target JVM version”. In our case, we will use JVM v17:

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How To To Print “Hello, Kotlin Friends!”

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