Groovy Basics
Groovy is one of the most popular non-Java languages on the JVM. It's best feature is how quickly and easily it can be learned by Java developers. This talk will demonstrate the major features of Groovy from the ground up, along with a few more sophisticated examples. Topics will include basic data structures, Groovy strings, native collections, closures, database access, parsing and generating JSON, and more.
Tests will be provided using both Spock and JUnit, and all the code will be built using Gradle.
About Kenneth Kousen
Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, several time JavaOne Rock Star, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the Pragmatic Library books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.
His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.
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