Groovy in Action

Learning how to script in Groovy can be daunting without some extra help.

Here are some learning tips and resources.

BOOKS

"Groovy in Action" by technology publishers Manning Publications (2007) is a great introduction which doubles up as a helpful code mentor which will get you Groovy-ing in no time - without having to traipse the Interweb for code samples!

TOOLS

groovysh - is the groovy shell..  When you are done, type :x to exit the shell
groovyConsole - loads and runs groovy files

Road to Clojure (PC and JC)

Clojure is a LISP dialect for the JVM. It also allows you to call Java code from LISP. Books on Clojure include:

Programming Clojure, by Stuart Halloway and Aaron Bedra, available from the Pragmatic Bookshelf
The Joy of Clojure, by Michael Fogus and Chris Houser (May 2014)

Knowing the standard Java APIs is useful when learning Clojure.

LISP stands for List Processing and was a favourite with AI researchers back in the day, having been invented by John McCarthy in 1958. He published his design in CACM in 1960.