Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
2 Hour(s) 36 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Matt Speake
Certificate
- Available
- *The delivery and distribution of the certificate are subject to the policies and arrangements of the course provider.
Rating
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Course Overview
Supercharge your productivity by understanding the quickest way to write Java-based applications!
Welcome to the wonderful world of Groovy!
In this course, we take you step-by-step through the most common features and programming idioms of the Groovy programming language enabling you to supercharge your developer productivity by harnessing the power of Groovy's lightweight and succinct programming syntax!
We'll explore Groovy's lightweight and powerful syntax which slashes development time down to at most a quarter of the time you'd spend in writing the equivalent Java program!
As a Java developer of over 20 years programming in the main investment banks of the world, I'm proficient in Java for sure. But in spite of the skill level I have in Java, Groovy is still my number one go-to language when it comes to knocking up quick scripts to automate drudge work and even for writing full scale applications too (using other frameworks such as Grails and Griffon).
Groovy is predominantly seen today in Jenkins pipelines scripts and in Gradle build scripts, but this really underplays its power and versatility as we'll see in this course. You're gonna excited by it's features and start using it in your day to day developer activities once you take this course!
In particular, you'll learn the following:
Getting set up with Groovy, installing it and creating Groovy projects in the IDE
Exploring the Groovy toolset
Using Groovy Console to execute Groovy code
Common Groovy operators which form the cornerstone of it's powerful syntax
Strings, heredocs and using regular expressions and capture groups to parse and extract strings
Groovy collections and the enhancements delivered by the GDK (Groovy Development Kit)
Iterating collections
Searching through collections
Filtering and transforming collections in Groovy with Groovy's powerful closure mechanism
and much much more!
I can't wait to see you inside and share my passion for Groovy with you - so enrol today and let's get started! ;)
Course Content
- 6 section(s)
- 49 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Getting Set Up
- Section 2 Groovy Operators
- Section 3 Groovy Strings
- Section 4 Collections in Groovy
- Section 5 Groovy Language Features
- Section 6 Wrapping Up
What You’ll Learn
- The fundamentals of the Groovy programming language
- How to write and adapt Groovy scripts
- How to read Groovy and understand how a Groovy program functions
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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MMatthew Johnson
In the introduction the videos had us install IntelliJ IDEA. The Operator and String sections used Groovy Console instead of the IDE. Maybe a future section will use the IDE. The lessons have been good.
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FFilippo Santarelli
It is all Mac oriented, not a word for Windows users. The video quality is abysmal. The course is now almost 5 years old without revision. Groovy had at least 2 major releases since the publishing of this course but it is still selling for £40+ I had no time to look into it after purchasing it and now I find myself I cannot get a refund It is a real shame as the instructor is very clear in his explanations. I hope there will be an overhaul soon, so I can make use of this course without having to purchase another one!
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NNamrata Gohil
Good for people who come from a Java background but I would have rather loved it if it had a separate section for closures and collection API in real use cases instead of just describing the method from Groovy doc.
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AAlexandra Strong
Straight to the point and very informational!
