Write your first Groovy Program
If you remember we already discussed in my previous post about adding Groovy to your resume. Adding new skills will always help and increase your chance of getting your dream job.
Before everything you should have hands on experience on groovy programming. Lets see how to write a simple groovy program. As a newbie for groovy , you should start a basic hello world program.
Before start your first groovy program , you should make sure you have groovy installed in your machine (Desktop/Laptop). I am using Linux (ubuntu) here to demonstrate this example.
You can check in your terminals and I have already installed Groovy. Below command I have used to check whether groovy is installed and what version of groovy I am using.
root@jdg-HP-ProBook-6450b:~/grovytest$ type groovy
groovy is hashed (/usr/bin/groovy)
root@jdg-HP-ProBook-6450b:~/grovytest$ groovy -version
Groovy Version: 1.8.6 JVM: 1.7.0_121 Vendor: Oracle Corporation OS: Linux
Now, we can write our first groovy program. Usually groovy files are saved with extension xxx.groovy. Groovy program doesn't required semicolon (;) to close like java.This is very simple and reduce the developer effort of coding.
Open vi editor or text pad. Lets start writing your first program.
Below is a Sample groovy program :-
HelloWorld.groovy
println "Say Hello to Groovy"
Now save this file with extension .groovy. In this example I have given the file name as HelloWorld.groovy.
Now you need to execute this .groovy file using below command on terminal and check the output.
root@jdg-HP-ProBook-6450b:~/grovytest$ groovy HelloWorld.groovy
Say Hello to Groovy
Now you can see the output I have highlighted in color. This is a simple groovy program. Find more programs on my subsequent posts.
Hope this will help you!!!
Adding Groovy to your Resume.
Are you adding groovy to your resume this year ? As a developer with 3-8 year experience you need heterogeneous number of technical skills. To compete a challenging goal and if you are seeking a challenging position , you need many skill sets . Only Java skills will not help you crack the interview.
Now-a-days most of the organizations are expecting a resource with full stack development experience.You can find more about full stack development in another post.
By adding Groovy to your resume will help you to build a positive impression for shortlisting your profile. Interview will always have a positive and negative result. But, shortlisting your profile is most important factor.
Groovy is quite old, but still you need Groovy for certain solution design. Once you added Groovy to your resume , make sure you are ready with all possible questions from interviewer. Sometimes , even you have hands on experience but you can't prompt your answer.
If you see what exactly Groovy is , you can say It's a kind of scripting language. It's a dynamic language with features similar
to those of Python, Ruby, Perl, etc. It can be used as a
scripting language for the Java Platform, is dynamically compiled to Java Virtual Machine (JVM) bytecode, and interoperates with other Java code and libraries.
Groovy uses a Java-like curly-bracket syntax and its really very easy to implement.
Finally again, its very clear that adding Groovy in your resume will help to shortlist your profile.This will increase the chance of hiring. Apart from job chance, this will impress the interviewer , if you are prompting with right answer :) :)
Find more posts related to Groovy Programming Language.
Hope this will help you!!!
Ubuntu terminal is not working properly in vi editor
As we all know vi editor is one of the major editing tool for developers. Sometimes its obvious to handle the issue if its not response properly. There are few scenario where this kind of behavior occurs.
If you have newly installed the ubuntu , or you have not updated the terminal with latest update.
Just try to update the terminal by using below command.
sudo apt-get update
Now check your vi editor behavior , if not yet resolved then try the below command to install the vi (vim) editor.
Install Vim Editor using below command :-
sudo apt-get install vim
Now check your vi editor, I hope its fixed. It worked for me and its working awasome :)
Hope this will help you!!!
