Learning Groovy

Get up and running with Groovy, a powerful, easy-to-use, and widely adopted language on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) platform.

Introduction

• Supercharge your Java program with Groovy
• What you should know

1. Getting Started

• What is Groovy?
• Installing the JDK and Groovy
• Exploring the GroovyShell and Console
• Hello World

2. Groovy Basics

• Groovy and Java
• Variables and data types
• Classes and methods
• Conditional structures and loops
• Exception handling
• Using the GDK documentation
• Challenge: Creating and using a class
• Solution: Creating and using a class

3. Beyond the Basics

• Using convenience annotations
• Understanding Closures
• Working with Collections
• Reading files
• Writing files
• Challenge: Processing file contents
• Solution: Processing file contents

Conclusion

• Next steps