Groovy Programming for Beginners

• Basic computer skills

Audience

• Developers
• IT students

Groovy is a powerful, optionally typed, and dynamic language, with static-typing and static compilation capabilities, for the Java platform.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level developers who wish to learn the basics of Groovy Programming.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the basic programming concepts.
• Write simple Groovy scripts and utilize Groovy core features.
• Understand and apply basic principles of object-oriented programming using Groovy.
• Learn basic error-handling techniques to manage common programming errors and exceptions in Groovy.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Introduction to Programming with Groovy

• What is Groovy?
• Brief history and evolution of Groovy
• Why choose Groovy?
• Overview of programming concepts
• Introduction to scripting vs compiled languages

Environment Setup

• Installing Groovy
• Setting up Groovy environment on different operating systems
• Introduction to GroovyShell and IDEs
• Exploring GroovyShell
• Introduction to Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) compatible with Groovy

Your First Groovy Script

• Hello world in Groovy
• Writing and running your first Groovy script
• Basic Groovy syntax
• Comments, variables, and printing outputs

Fundamental Programming Concepts in Groovy

• Data types and variables
• Primitive types, strings, and type inference
• Basic operators
• Arithmetic, relational, and logical operators
• String manipulation
• Common string operations and methods

Control Structures

• Conditional statements
• if, else, and switch statements
• Looping Constructs
• for, while, and do-while loops

Introduction to Collections

• Working with arrays
• Declaring, initializing, and accessing arrays
• Lists and maps
• Introduction to list and map usage and operations

Introduction to Functions and Closures

• Defining and calling functions
• Syntax, parameters, and return values
• Basic introduction to closures

Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming

• Classes and objects
• Creating classes, objects, and understanding properties
• Basic methods
• Method definitions and method calling

Basic Error Handling

• Introduction to exception handling
• Try, catch, and finally blocks
• Common exception types in Groovy

Summary and Next Steps