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Overview of data types: Numbers and strings

Overview of data types: Numbers and strings - Flutter Tutorial

From the course: Flutter Essential Training: Build for Multiple Platforms

Overview of data types: Numbers and strings

- If you have ever worked with any other programming language then you are aware of variables and constants, and that there are different types of data that you can store such as numbers, strings, characters, et cetera. In this course, we won't be going into details of what variables and constants are because we expect the learners to have some experience with object oriented programming languages but we will be discussing the different data types that are available in Dart. The Dart language has built in support for nine data types, such as; numbers, strings, booleans, lists, sets, maps, runes, symbols, and the value of the object null, however, for this course we will just care about these five data types, and this will be enough for us to get started with Flutter. Let's start with the very first one. The numbers. Basically just numbers like 3456, 900, 5.5, et cetera. Now in dart, there are usually two types of numbers.…

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