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Free online courseDart tutorial for beginners

Duration of the online course: 4 hours and 46 minutes

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Build real Dart skills for app development with a free online course—master syntax, OOP, functions, and collections to prepare for Flutter projects.

In this free course, learn about

  • Set up Dart tools (DartPad/IntelliJ) and run a Hello World program
  • Understand Dart program entry point (main), basic syntax, and comments
  • Use Dart data types, variables, strings, literals, and string interpolation
  • Declare constants correctly with final vs const
  • Apply control flow: if/else, ternary operator, switch/case and case type rules
  • Write loops (for/while/do-while), and use break/continue with labels
  • Create functions with fat-arrow syntax, optional positional/named/default params
  • Handle exceptions with try/catch/finally and define custom exception classes
  • Build OOP in Dart: classes, objects, references, and constructors (default/named/param)
  • Encapsulate with getters/setters and private instance variables
  • Use inheritance, method overriding (polymorphism), abstract classes, and interfaces
  • Work with static variables/methods and constructors in inheritance
  • Apply functional programming: lambdas, higher-order functions, lexical closures
  • Use collections: fixed/growable List, Set/HashSet, Map/HashMap, and callable classes

Course Description

Want to start building apps with Flutter but feel stuck at the programming foundation? This free online course helps you get comfortable with Dart from the ground up, so you can write clean code, understand what it’s doing, and progress with confidence. You’ll begin by setting up your environment in a beginner-friendly way using tools like DartPad or an IDE, then move into writing and running your first programs. From there, the course strengthens the essentials that every developer needs: understanding the entry point of a Dart application, reading and writing basic syntax, and working fluently with variables, data types, strings, and constants.

As you advance, you’ll practice the logic that powers real applications. Conditionals and switch statements help you express decisions clearly, while loops and control flow help you process data reliably. You’ll also gain practical experience with functions, including different parameter styles and shorthand syntax, so you can break problems into reusable pieces and write code that’s easier to maintain.

The course then guides you into the object-oriented features that make Dart especially useful for scalable app development. You’ll learn to model your code with classes and objects, work with constructors, manage state with getters and setters, and apply concepts like inheritance, method overriding, abstract classes, interfaces, and static members. Along the way, you’ll build stronger debugging habits by handling errors through exceptions, including creating custom exceptions when needed.

To round out your toolkit, you’ll explore functional programming ideas like lambda expressions, higher-order functions, and closures, then apply them naturally with core collections such as lists, sets, and maps. By the end, you’ll not only know Dart syntax—you’ll have the mindset and structure to read existing codebases, write your own features, and take your next step toward Flutter development with a solid foundation.

Course content

  • Video class: #0 Dart Programming for Flutter: Beginners Tutorial [ FREE COURSE ] Overview 04m
  • Video class: #1.2 Dart Installation: Setup DartPad or Intellij IDEA for Windows, Mac or Linux 02m
  • Video class: #2.1 Dart Hello World : Write your First Code in Dart and run it in DartPad or Intellij IDEA 06m
  • Exercise: _What is the entry point of any Dart application?
  • Video class: #2.2 Dart Basic Syntax Tutorial: COMMENTS 03m
  • Video class: #3.1 Dart Data Types and Variables. Dart Tutorial for Flutter 08m
  • Video class: #3.2 Dart Strings, Literals and String Interpolation. Dart Tutorial for Flutter 10m
  • Video class: #3.3 Dart Defining Constants using 'final' and 'const' keyword. Dart Tutorial for Flutter 06m
  • Video class: #4.1 Dart IF ELSE Conditional Statements. Dart Tutorial for Flutter 06m
  • Video class: #4.2 Dart Conditional Expressions: Ternary Operator of Java. Dart Flutter Tutorial 06m
  • Video class: #4.3 Dart SWITCH and CASE conditional statements. Dart Tutorial for Flutter 05m
  • Exercise: What data types can be used as parameters in a switch case statement?
  • Video class: #5.1 Dart Loops and Iterators: Loop Control Statements. Dart Flutter Tutorial 05m
  • Video class: #5.2 Dart FOR Loop and how it works internally. Dart Tutorial for Flutter 07m
  • Video class: #5.3 Dart WHILE Loop example and how it works internally. Dart Tutorial for Flutter 04m
  • Video class: #5.4 Dart DO WHILE Loop and how it works internally. Dart Tutorial for Flutter 04m
  • Video class: #5.5 Dart BREAK Statement with Labelled FOR Loop. Dart Flutter Tutorial 05m
  • Video class: #5.6 Dart CONTINUE Statement with Labelled FOR Loop. Dart Flutter Tutorial 05m
  • Exercise: What is the function of the 'continue' keyword in a loop?
  • Video class: #6.1 Dart Functions or Methods. Syntax and Properties. Dart Programming for Flutter 06m
  • Video class: #6.2 Dart Functions or Methods example. Dart Programming for Flutter 06m
  • Video class: #6.3 Dart Short Hand Syntax | FAT ARROW | Functions Expressions. Dart for Flutter 03m
  • Video class: #6.4 Dart Optional Positional Parameters in Functions. Dart Tutorial for Flutter 04m
  • Video class: #6.5 Dart Optional NAMED Parameters in Functions. Dart Tutorial for Flutter 04m
  • Video class: #6.6 Dart Optional Default Parameters in Function. Dart Flutter Tutorial 05m
  • Video class: #7.1 Dart Exception Handling | How to handle Exceptions in Dart. Dart Tutorial for Flutter 08m
  • Video class: #7.2 Dart Custom Exception Class example. Dart tutorial for Flutter. 04m
  • Video class: #8.1 Dart Class, Objects, Instance and reference Variable example. Dart Tutorial for Flutter 09m
  • Exercise: _What are the various types of constructors covered in the object-oriented programming section of the Dart tutorial for beginners by Smartherd?
  • Video class: #8.2 Dart Constructors: Default, Named and Parameterised Constructor. Dart Flutter Tutorial. 11m
  • Video class: #8.3 Dart Class, Objects, Constructors, Instance 03m
  • Video class: #9.1 Dart GETTER and SETTER | Private Instance variables. Dart Programming for Flutter 10m
  • Video class: #9.2 Dart INHERITANCE Explanation. Object Oriented Programming in Dart 07m
  • Video class: #9.3 Dart Inheritance Demo. Object Oriented Dart. Dart for Flutter Tutorial 05m
  • Video class: #9.4 Dart Method Overriding: Polymorphism. Dart Flutter Programming Tutorial 06m
  • Video class: #9.5 Dart Constructors in Inheritance: Default and Named Constructors. Dart for Flutter 11m
  • Video class: #9.6 Dart Abstract Class and Abstract Method Example. Object Oriented Tutorial 06m
  • Video class: #9.7 Dart INTERFACE ( implements keyword ) Example. Dart Programming for Flutter 06m
  • Video class: #9.8 Dart STATIC variables and methods. Dart Tutorial for Flutter 11m
  • Video class: #10.1 Dart Functional Programming: Lambda Expression Tutorial 07m
  • Video class: #10.2 Functional Programming in Dart: Higher-Order Functions and Lambda Expression Tutorial 06m
  • Video class: #10.3 Functional Programming in Dart: Lexical Closures Tutorial 06m
  • Video class: #11.1 Dart Collections: Arrays or LIST as Fixed-length List. Dart for Flutter 09m
  • Exercise: _What is a fixed length list in Dart?
  • Video class: #11.2 Dart Collections: Arrays as List: Growable List. Dart for Flutter 06m
  • Video class: #11.3 Dart Collections: Set and HashSet. Dart Tutorial for Flutter 07m
  • Video class: #11.4 Dart Collections: Map and HashMap- Dart Tutorial for Flutter 10m
  • Video class: #12.1 Dart Callable Class - Call Class like a Function. Dart Tutorial for Flutter: 02m
  • Video class: #13 Dart Programming for Flutter: Beginners Tutorial [ COURSE SUMMARY ] 01m

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