| #1983047 in Books | Pragmatic Bookshelf | 2008-04-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.95 x7.50l,1.42 | File type: PDF | 318 pages | ||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| OK, but not great|By Marshall Pierce|Will this book help you learn Groovy? Absolutely. However, it's not in the same class as great programming books like Bloch's Effective Java or Goetz's Java Concurrency in Practice.
I didn't appreciate the extra space taken up by the author's conversational style. I prefer a denser, more straight-to-the-point style.
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|Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., and an adjunct faculty at the University of Houston. He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and
The strength of Java is no longer in the language itself; it's in the Java Platform (the JVM, JDK, and rich frameworks and libraries). But recently, the industry has turned to dynamic languages for increased productivity and speed to market.
Groovy is one of a new breed of dynamic languages that run on the Java platform. You can use these new languages on the JVM and intermix them with your existing Java code. You can leverage your Java investments while be...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer (Pragmatic Programmers) | Venkat Subramaniam. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
