Groovy Fundamentals
Get up to speed on Groovy in this half-day workshop. The discussion will start with basic numbers, strings, and collections but rapidly more to more advanced topics like builders and metaprogramming.
Topics covered will include: strings, collections, closures, builders, parsers and slurpers, and metaprogramming concepts like categories and the expando metaclass. All code will be tested both with standard JUnit test and with Spock, and projects will include Gradle build files.
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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