Use collections: fixed/growable List, Set/HashSet, Map/HashMap, and callable classes
About the free online course
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 ] Overview04m
Video class: #1.2 Dart Installation: Setup DartPad or Intellij IDEA for Windows, Mac or Linux02m
Video class: #2.1 Dart Hello World : Write your First Code in Dart and run it in DartPad or Intellij IDEA06m
Exercise: _What is the entry point of any Dart application?
Video class: #2.2 Dart Basic Syntax Tutorial: COMMENTS03m
Video class: #3.1 Dart Data Types and Variables. Dart Tutorial for Flutter08m
Video class: #3.2 Dart Strings, Literals and String Interpolation. Dart Tutorial for Flutter10m
Video class: #3.3 Dart Defining Constants using 'final' and 'const' keyword. Dart Tutorial for Flutter06m
Video class: #4.1 Dart IF ELSE Conditional Statements. Dart Tutorial for Flutter06m
Video class: #4.2 Dart Conditional Expressions: Ternary Operator of Java. Dart Flutter Tutorial06m
Video class: #4.3 Dart SWITCH and CASE conditional statements. Dart Tutorial for Flutter05m
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 Tutorial05m
Video class: #5.2 Dart FOR Loop and how it works internally. Dart Tutorial for Flutter07m
Video class: #5.3 Dart WHILE Loop example and how it works internally. Dart Tutorial for Flutter04m
Video class: #5.4 Dart DO WHILE Loop and how it works internally. Dart Tutorial for Flutter04m
Video class: #5.5 Dart BREAK Statement with Labelled FOR Loop. Dart Flutter Tutorial05m
Video class: #5.6 Dart CONTINUE Statement with Labelled FOR Loop. Dart Flutter Tutorial05m
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 Flutter06m
Video class: #6.2 Dart Functions or Methods example. Dart Programming for Flutter06m
Video class: #6.3 Dart Short Hand Syntax | FAT ARROW | Functions Expressions. Dart for Flutter03m
Video class: #6.4 Dart Optional Positional Parameters in Functions. Dart Tutorial for Flutter04m
Video class: #6.5 Dart Optional NAMED Parameters in Functions. Dart Tutorial for Flutter04m
Video class: #6.6 Dart Optional Default Parameters in Function. Dart Flutter Tutorial05m
Video class: #7.1 Dart Exception Handling | How to handle Exceptions in Dart. Dart Tutorial for Flutter08m
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 Flutter09m
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, Instance03m
Video class: #9.1 Dart GETTER and SETTER | Private Instance variables. Dart Programming for Flutter10m
Video class: #9.2 Dart INHERITANCE Explanation. Object Oriented Programming in Dart07m
Video class: #9.3 Dart Inheritance Demo. Object Oriented Dart. Dart for Flutter Tutorial05m
Course comments: Dart tutorial for beginners
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