Downloading And Installing The Tools To Run Kotlin

Tools Required:

            As we know kotlin is interoperable with java, so probably Kotlin supports all the tools that supports java, so to run kotlin programs JDK is must to be installed in your system so that Intelli J IDEA a most popular tool to run many of the programming languages and Intelli J IDEA came up with an IDE that supports Kotlin.

Firstly check whether java is already installed in your system, else download 

1.Download latest version of JDK and install

jdk download page

Download JDK from the official Oracle website. To download click here

2. Intelli J IDEA Community Version:

download IntelliJ

Download IntelliJ IDEA from the jetbrains  website. To download click here. 

Don’t forget to download Community edition since it is free edition that supports only few programming languages such as java, kotlin etc..

Install JDK:

Click on downloaded setup file to start the installation

Install Java

click Next

install-java

 set path to your desired destination folder.

Install Java

Install java

Install Java

Install Java

Done with java installation and now Install Intelli J

Install Intelli J on Windows

Double-click on setup to Initiate Installation

Installing IntelliJ

           

Click on Next

Install Intelli J

  select 64-bit launcher , .java and .kt

Installing Intelli J

  

Install IntelliJ

             
   

Installing Intelli J

Installing Intelli J

That's it done with Installations.In the next post we will discuss on setting up a project in kotlin and running a simple program in kotlin.