The slide deck used to set the context and introduce Groovy to the participants of my FOSSCON IN 2019 workshop on 'Programming with Apache Groovy'.

1. Programming with
Apache Groovy
Naresha K
Continuous Delivery Architect | Technical Excellence Coach
naresha.k@gmail.com
@naresha_k

2. Who do you code for?

3. Programs must be written for
people to read,
and only incidentally for
machines to execute.
H. Abelson and G. Sussman
The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

4. “Any fool can write code that a
computer can understand. Good
programmers write code that humans
can understand.”
Martin Fowler

6. Most people talk about Java the language, and this
may sound odd coming from me, but I could hardly
care less. At the core of the Java ecosystem is the
JVM.
- James Gosling,
Creator of the Java Programming Language(2011, TheServerSide)

9. Java Source
Byte Code
Native Code

10. Java Source
Byte Code
Native Code

11. Groovy Source
Byte Code
Native Code

12. http://zeroturnaround.com/rebellabs/the-adventurous-developers-guide-to-jvm-languages-java-scala-groovy-fantom-clojure-ceylon-kotlin-xtend/

13. initial idea was to make a little
dynamic language which compiles
directly to Java classes and provides
all the nice (alleged) productivity
benefits
- James Strachan
http://radio-weblogs.com/0112098/2003/08/29.html

14. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

15. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

16. http://groovy-lang.org/

20. http://spockframework.org/

21. https://gebish.org/

23. Welcome to Groovy