Why learn Master Groovy?
Learning a new programming language helps to enhance your skill set as a developer, specifically so when technology is growing exponentially and developers have to update themselves constantly to stay current. One such language that is a must-learn and fast gaining momentum for developers is Groovy.
Groovy, the powerful and dynamic object-oriented scripting programming language, with static compilation and static typing capabilities for Java platform tops the list of popular OOPS languages. It integrates with any Java program smoothly and delivers robust features to your application immediately including Domain-Specific Language authoring, scripting capabilities, functional programming, and runtime and compile-time meta-programming. Groovy allows you to write code easily and combine new Java modules to the existing Java apps. It also offers simple Application Programming Interface (API) for accessing XML and Databases.
This course will not only introduce you to Groovy language but also the essential Groovy platform. Our industry expert trainers will cover all the concepts and take JVM developers from newbie to advanced level with the Groovy language through hands-on exercises, demonstration, and comprehensive lectures. The training includes real-world projects that will give you real-time experience and practical knowledge in the Groovy scripting language. At the end of this course, you will not only gain an in-depth understanding of Groovy, but you will be able to use it in a number of everyday use cases.
One of the most popular programming languages today, Groovy has been adopted by leading tech giants, making it a very popular programming language. Compared to its TIOBE index ranking of 60 in June 2018, its ranking in June 2019 has risen to 16. Master the Groovy language with KnowledgeHut’s immersive course, and gain expertise in all the skills required to use Groovy effectively to develop different types of JVM applications.
Benefits
This Master Groovy course offers intermediate to advanced level training which helps one become well versed with this programming language in theory and practice.
Individual benefits
A programmer gets to see many advantages in his/her career with training in Master Groovy.
- Increase in job opportunities in the programming market which is largely adopting Groovy
- Skills obtained can help programmers in basic tasks and also in tasks demanding advanced skills
- The average annual salary of a programmer with knowledge of Groovy is up to $1,20,000.
- Its soaring popularity can help establish a stable career as a programmer
Organizational benefits
Enterprises get many advantages with training in Groovy.
- It has dynamic and flexible features which are simple to use thus bringing faster development.
- Swift deployment is seen with easy and simple codes.
- Incorporation of Java offers massive options to work with.
- It is hassle-free, brief and expressive.
- Creation of robust applications is not time-consuming with easy operations.
Groovy has gained a massive vote of confidence among programmers as seen by its gaining popularity. Solid training in Groovy can open up job opportunities for any programming enthusiast.
What you will learn
1. Introduction
Learn to install as well as understand tools like groovyc, groovy shell and groovy console.
2. Basics
Get a clear understanding of the concepts that surround variables, operators and functions.
3. Collections
Learn about the List data type of Groovy in order to witness amazing outcomes while coding.
4. Exception Handling
Understand all the groovy exception handling concepts and its difference with java exception handling.
5. Metaprogramming
Gain knowledge on Meta-Object Protocol (MOP), MetaClass and Adding dynamic methods at run time.
6. Builders
Learn about the concepts of builder pattern, JSON builder, Object graph builder and other builders.
7. Applications
Learn about the application areas of Groovy as well as understand where it can come handy.
Who Should Attend
- Java developers who want to adopt Grails
- Those who want to automate day to day programming tasks using Groovy
- Java developers looking out for a JVM language that expresses more with less code
Prerequisites
There are no mandatory prerequisites to fulfill in order to learn Groovy. But it is always helpful for you to have the following knowledge and skills:
- It is preferable for you to have exposure to Java or any other object-oriented programming language.
- A little knowledge on databases and SQL will be an added advantage.
Knowledgehut Experience
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Curriculum Designed by Experts
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Learn through Doing
Learn theory backed by practical case studies, exercises and coding practice. Get skills and knowledge that can be effectively applied in the real world.
Mentored by Industry Leaders
Learn from the best in the field. Our mentors are all experienced professionals in the fields they teach.
Advance from the Basics
Learn concepts from scratch, and advance your learning through step-by-step guidance on tools and techniques.
Code Reviews by Professionals
Get reviews and feedback on your final projects from professional developers.
Curriculum
- Installing sdkman
- Installing groovy development kit using sdkman
- Understanding the various tools like groovyc, groovy shell and groovy console
- Writing very basic commands on the groovy shell
- How groovy compares to other JVM languages like Java
- Defining variables using the ‘def’ keyword
- Dynamic typing
- Explicitly defining data types for a variable
- Arithmetic, relational, logical operators
- Elvis and spaceship operators in groovy
- Defining functions in groovy
- Function with implicit and explicit returns
- Default arguments in functions
- Closures
- Functional programming in groovy
- Functions that take groovy map as argument
- ‘if’ , ‘if-else if-else’ selection statements for branching
- The groovy ‘switch’ statement to achieve branching
- Looping using ‘while’ and ‘for’
- ‘break’ and ‘continue’ statements
- Classes and objects
- Difference between instance variables and static variables.
- Instance and static functions
- Constructors
- Groovy bean class
- On demand encapsulation of object attributes in groovy
- Operator overloading in groovy classes
- Composition
- Inheritance
- Abstract classes
- Interfaces
- Traits
- Organizing groovy code in packages
- Default packages imported in groovy code
- Using the List data type of groovy
- Functional programming on list data structure using groovy closures
- Meta programming on list data structure
- Map data structure in groovy and various operations on a map
- Flow of a program in the event of an exception thrown in the program
- Exception handling using try-catch
- Defining custom exceptions and throwing them
- The finally block
- How groovy exception handling is different from java exception handling
- Meta Object protocol (MOP)
- MetaClass
- Adding dynamic methods to build in groovy classes at run time
- Adding dynamic methods in custom groovy classes at run time
- Introduction to the builder pattern
- Designing domain specific language (DSL) to initialize objects in groovy
- JSON builder
- Object graph builder
- Other builders available in the groovy programming language
- Build GUIs using SwingBuilder in groovy
- Build multi screen gui’s
- Connect gui’s to a database using groovy sql package
- Introduction to gradle
- Writing custom gradle scripts in groovy for automating build tasks
Faq
The Course
There are several reasons why Groovy is so much more popular than other programming languages. It has been adopted by top tech giants and is a very powerful language for developing build tools like Gradle. In addition, it is more popular because of its smooth integration with Java, Java frameworks and libraries.KnowledgeHut is one of the leading Groovy training providers as per the current industry standards and requirements and empowers individuals to excel in their careers. Groovy experts are much sought after across the world, and the average salary of a “Java Groovy Developer” in USA is $1,20,000/year. An entry level Groovy developer earns a package of $63,375/year whereas the most experienced employees make up to $2,04,000/year. There is no better time than now to master Groovy, and learn to leverage its power for your career and project success!
On completing the course, you will learn to:
- Use groovy as the programming language for day to day software tasks
- Build desktop gui applications using swingbuilder.
No restrictions ever in the learning experience! Exposure to any other programming language preferably Java, would be an added advantage. A little knowledge about databases and SQL would help.
Yes, KnowledgeHut offers this training online.
On successful completion of the course you will receive a course completion certificate issued by KnowledgeHut.
Your instructors are Groovy experts who have years of industry experience.
Finance Related
Any registration cancelled within 48 hours of the initial registration will be refunded in FULL (please note that all cancellations will incur a 5% deduction in the refunded amount due to transactional costs applicable while refunding) Refunds will be processed within 30 days of receipt of written request for refund. Kindly go through our Refund Policy for more details: http://www.knowledgehut.com/refund
KnowledgeHut offers a 100% money back guarantee if the candidate withdraws from the course right after the first session. To learn more about the 100% refund policy, visit our Refund Policy.
The Remote Experience
In an online classroom, students can log in at the scheduled time to a live learning environment which is led by an instructor. You can interact, communicate, view and discuss presentations, and engage with learning resources while working in groups, all in an online setting. Our instructors use an extensive set of collaboration tools and techniques which improves your online training experience.
The following must be installed on your personal machine
- SdkMan
- Groovy 2.x (latest version)
- MySQL database server and some mySQL client software
- Any IDE of your choice.
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Groovy
Groovy is an object-oriented programming language used as JAVAscript. It is a compatible, compiled to Java virtual machine (JVM),with features similar to that of Python, Ruby and Smalltalk . The language can be used to combine Java modules, extend existing Java applications and write new ones. Groovy uses all Java classes and libraries and builds nicely on Java’s strengths, which allows for more efficient coding. Groovy script is fully parsed, compiled, and generated before executing the data. Groovy source code gets compiled in Java Bytecode so it can be run on any platform if an application is installed on that operating system. It has an agile and dynamic performance.
Groovy is basically used for scripting for java and is used for the following:
- Simplicity:Build on top of Java standard libraries, providing extra features. Most of them make programming much instant, simpler and convenient.
- String interpolation: evaluation of a string function is done thoroughly. Here, placeholders are surrounded by${}or prefixed with $ for dotted expressions.
- Type Casting:With as operator Groovy makes casting very readable and clear. To use this operand the casted class must implement the asType() method.
- Power Assertions: It offers the same assert statement as that of Java, but is way more powerful. In case the assertions fails the output resolves to false.
- Defining variables: Groovy offers incredible flexibility. One can define a variable with its type or simply use the keyword def especially when declaring lists or maps.
- Operators: operators allowed here are Elvis operator(ternary operator), Safe navigation operator(variable check) and Spread Operator(iteration).
Groovy is a multi-faceted open-source general purpose programming language for the Java platform. It supports an easily understandable and publicly accessible source code that anyone can inspect, modify, and enhance unlike some software which has source code that only the person, team, or organization who created it and maintains exclusive control over it can modify While primarily an object-oriented language with many dynamic language features, it also supports functional programming, static and dynamic type checking and compilation.Programmers who would like to view that code, copy it, learn from it, alter it, or share it can do it with zero hindrance.
Groovy is an accomplished object-oriented (OO) language that supports all of the OO programming concepts that are familiar to Java developers such as classes, objects, interfaces, inheritance, polymorphism, and others. Groovy compiler will not convert such scripts into Java classes of type groovy.lang.Script though. A class in Groovy declares the state (data) and the behavior of objects defined by that class. Hence, a Groovy class describes both the instance fields and methods for that class. Together, the data and methods of a class are used to represent some real world object from the problem domain. These objects can be accessed, modified, moved and combined with other objects as well.
Groovy offers stylised type casting. It is vastly used for developing apps and games. Groovy can be used as a programming language as well as a scripting language for the Java Platform and is compiled to Java virtual machine (JVM) bytecode which operates seamlessly with other Java code and libraries. Groovy uses a curly-bracket syntax similar to Java's. It is statically typed languages are those in which type checking is done at the compiling stage and not during execution. Java is a general purpose statically typed language. One can easily simply write the codes without any interruption.
Both JAVA and Groovy are in huge competition in the market today.
GROOVY
- It has a strong, static and dynamic typing discipline and are saved with typical ``.groovy” file extension.
- It is Compiled with JVM byte code and is compatible with JAVA platform.
- On Groovy things are by default publici.e., a method without any access modifier is public and accessible outside of class and package boundaries.
- Syntax is quite similar to that of JAVA.
- For class members in Groovy, getters and setters are generated automatically.
- Since Groovy is a Scripting language, there's automatically a wrapping class called Script for every program.
JAVA
- Java is a static, safe and strongly typed programming language with file extension names “.java” or “.class”.
- It is developed on JDK and run on JVM.
- It has a strong disciple syntax.
- If access modifier is not specified, it becomes a private package.
- In Java, you need to provide getters and setters method for fields, especially if you are following JavaBeans naming convention and use tools and libraries, which uses reflection to dynamically access and mutate bean properties.
- In Java, one needs a main method to make a class executable.
Groovy has a Dynamic Performance.Groovy scripts can be statically compiled providing near Java code performance. Groovy syntax is concise, instant, simple and easy. It saves a lot of code and effort thus increasing the productivity of developer if he had to do the same thing in Java. It has instant implementation of code it allows polymorphism where when a parent class reference is used to refer to a child class object. Here, callback patterns are made easy to implement. Compilation is done during runtime. The syntax has an understandable and readable format.
The syntax and the codes written in groovy are simple and accessible. One can write Groovy code online and just execute it to quickly play around with some snippets. No huge complicated programs are required. If one is familiar with c or other basic programming languages. Since it has a code structure similar to that of Python, JAVA, having knowledge of only one of these makes it quite easier for the user. Only the basic programming codes are required. After installation, Groovy is ready to work with.Groovy deals primarily with classes and objects. A class in Groovy is declared by the state (data) and the behavior of objects is defined by that class. Both the instance fields and methods for the class are described by Groovy class. These objects can be accessed, modified, moved and combined with other objects as well.
Today, developers look for something which is agile and takes no time. Its efficiency has pushed the mass to go wild. Being user-interactive, new features are updated instantly. Its concise and direct syntax permits developers that use Groovy to develop projects in a simplified manner. It has been ranked among the Top 20 in the Tiobe Index of language popularity after a two-year absence. Groovy had been at No. 49 a year ago. Because of its use in writing scripts for the popular JENKINS CI/CD, Groovy is expected to maintain its rank, which provides effective software quality services. these rankings are based on a formula that assesses searches on languages in popular search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Wikipedia. Groovy also uses a domain specific language is a programming language or a specification dedicated to solving specific problems, through a specific technique. Because of these features its suffering a rapid growth in the technological industry.
Groovy Grails
Grails is also an open source web application framework that performs on Groovy programming. Like Groovy, this application also permits the product accessibility publicly. For now in this tech startup it has been a silent contributor. The following features make it more interesting:
- Robust framework: Groovy being a user interface software needed a more efficient framework while coding. Grail’s amazing framework makes it more significant, concise and well organised.
- Power of JAVA: Groovy on Grails gets well with the Java. The framework seamlessly and transparently integrates and collaborates with Java, the JVM, and existing Java EE containers giving the Java developers truckload of advantage.
- Excellent for startups: Unlike other Java web toolkits, the Groovy on Grails does not ask to assemble development units which can be tedious. Instead the Grails provides a development environment that includes a web server to get developers started right away. All required libraries are part of the Grails distribution and prepares for its formation automatically.