Groovy by Example
Learn the basics of Groovy through a series of small, but non-trivial, examples. Rather than simply survey the language, in this talk we'll walk through a series of use cases to see how Groovy is used in practice to solve problems. The goal is to help Java developers who haven't seen much of Groovy get up to speed on the fundamentals.
We'll cover Groovy topics including closures, native collections, the Groovy JDK, iterators, file handling, database access, and more advanced metaprogramming topics like builders and metaclasses.
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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