Teaching Android Development With Kotlin: The Stanford Approach

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In this webinar, Rahul Pandey, Stanford Lecturer, Android Educator, and Facebook Engineer covers these topics:
– The flipped classroom approach, in which assignment guides and basic language features are delivered via YouTube videos that students watch outside of class time. Class time is reserved for gaining deeper conceptual understanding and doing exercises together.
– The “low floor, high ceiling” approach, where students can do the bare minimum and still maximize their learning, and where there’s also ample opportunity to extend assignments, which students can take as far as they want.
– Relating Kotlin to other programming languages that students are familiar with, which is really helpful for demonstrating the power of Kotlin and its differences from other languages.
– Watching someone’s workflow to help avoid time-wasting tasks that may not be obvious when starting out in Android.
CS194A: Android Programming Workshop, Stanford University: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs194a/
Rahul’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/rpandey1234
Kotlin for Education page: https://kotlinlang.org/education/
Android Development Resources for Educators from Google: https://developer.android.com/teach