This chapter will help you set up your development environment to work with Dart, and it will also teach you how to create your first Dart projects. Follow along to install the necessary tools and Dart's SDK. Get to understand the structure of a Dart project and why Pub and Stagehand will become useful tools when programming with Dart.

Now you'll learn the basic concepts to start programming in Dart. What's the difference between a variable and a constant? How do you write comments? And what mathematical expressions can you use? These will allow you to get started with the basic principles you need to become a master of Dart!

Let's move forward by learning some of the main types provided by Dart and the different operations you can perform with them. Get to understand Strings and the way Dart represents text and characters using Unicode. And you'll also learn about converting between types, what type inference, concatenation or interpolation are used for and finally, what is the difference between dynamically and statically typed languages.

Let's move on to some more advanced concepts. As the name implies, Control flow will allow you to determine and decide what your program does at each step. Booleans, enums, switches, if-else statements and loops will allow you to set the path your program will follow.

Time has arrived to start looking at Functions, one of the concepts you will use more extensively when programming in Dart and many other languages. Check how powerful and flexible Dart functions are and learn about closures and the difference between anonymous or arrow functions.

Dig deeper into Dart itself by learning about Dart classes, and other key elements such as access control for variables/methods, static members, cascade notation and more.

Gain an overview of null before diving deeper into null aware operators, null safety and more.

Learn the various collection elements such as lists, maps, sets, higher order functions, collection operators and more.

Build on what you learned in Chapter 6, "Classes," by learning extending classes, abstract classes and inheritance, mixins, extension methods and more.

Learn concurrency in Dart, as well as other features such as futures, streams, isolates and more. You'll be challenced with a mock network call to practice what you've learned.