Back to School with Kotlin

It’s back to School time and so we’d like to give all the Kotlin newcomers a chance for getting a taste of Kotlin. You will hear the basics of the Kotlin programming language in an introductory talk, no Kotlin experience is required, Java is highly recommended, or at least some other general purpose object-oriented language (C#, JavaScript, Scala, Ruby, ...)

Together we will go through some simple coding examples, so-called Koans, to get a feeling of the language.

Main Topic: Kotlin 101 by Rainer Kern

Schedule:
18:00 - Setup, Sound Check, etc.
18:30 - Open Doors
19:00 - Welcome, Introduction, Meetup News and Housekeeping, Sponsor Messages, Community Interview
19:15 - Main Talk
20:30 - Networking, Pizza, and Beer
22:00 - Close Doors

Speaker Bio:
Rainer Kern is a Software Architect and Kotlin enthusiast from Vienna with 15 Years of professional experience in the Java ecosystem - four of them spent mainly in Kotlin.

Apart from his work as a software architecture consultant and engineer specializing in SAAS Backends, Rainer is also engaged as a lector at the SAE University in Vienna and co-organizer of the Vienna Kotlin Meetup, Author of a number of software engineering classes, and several software engineering related talks as well as a contributor to two Kotlin libraries on Github.

Rainer was born in 1984 in Vienna, Austria. He studied Business Informatics at the Vienna University of Technology and IT-Project Management at the Polytechnical University of Catalonia in Barcelona. He has lived in Barcelona, Munich, Zurich, and his home town Vienna.