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This document is meant to be a guide to "jump-start" learning the web-framework Grails for our future employees and all who are interested. It is our intention to guide a path for self studies. Please walk this way ...
As we want to foster a "jump-start" we start right away:
- Install GGTS
- GGTS - the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite™ - is an Eclipse-based IDE
- (Not so short) video tutorial/introduction into GGTS
- Work through this tutorial
- There is an accompanying video series on youtube for this.
- In case you need more information on the installation on your prefered plattform, please look up the Documentation.
- SpringSource has some valuable video turotials (not only) about Grails on youtube.
- Next you can follow Ben Davis on a more practical approach and build a link shortener
- Depending on what you are most interested in, consider to do some tutorials from the Grails Tutorial for Beginners - Grails Cookbook
... for all additional questions, please refer to the (very good) Grails Documentation.
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The following books are recommended as reference and should be available in most libraries or even online via your library/organisation:
- Burt Beckwith: Programming Grails, O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2013.
- Glen Smith and Peter Ledbrook: Grails in Action, Second Edition, Manning Publications, 2014.
- Graeme Rocher and Jeff Brown: The Definitive Guide to Grails, Second Edition, Apress, 2009.
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You search for more information? So please start from one of these:
- In case of questions/problems look on Stack Overflow tag:grails, as the probability is high that someone else had the same problem and got a suggestion for a solution there.
- More video tutorials from SpringSource on youtube.
- IBM has published a series of Grails tutorials covering different aspects.
- Have look every once and a while on
Grails, where helpful links are collected.
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As Grails is based on Groovy is is maybe a good idea to have a closer look into Groovy as well. 😉
- Install is always a good idea.
- Work through The Groovy 2 Tutorial.
- Plese consider buying the book!
- The website The Groovy Tutorial accompanies the book and has some code.
... for all additional questions, please refer to the (very good) Groovy Documentation.
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The following books are recommended as reference and should be available in most libraries or even online via your library/organisation:
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Venkat Subramaniam: Programming Groovy 2, Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2013.
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Kenneth Barclay and John Savage: Groovy Programming, Morgan Kaufmann, 2010.
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Unfortunately for German speaking learners only: If you have experience in Java, this might be helpful:
Jörg Staudemeyer: Groovy für Java-Entwickler (openbook
), O’Reilly Verlag, 2007.
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You search for more information? So please start from one of these:
- In case of questions/problems look on Stack Overflow tag:groovy, as the probability is high that someone else had the same problem and got a suggestion for a solution there.
- Have look every once and a while on
- Watch and train the Groovy exercises by AllTech on Youtube.
- Place the DZone Groovy Refcard by Dierk Koenig next to your working place.
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- Groovy Calamari - Groovy Calamari is a curated publication full of interesting, relevant links about the Groovy Ecosystem. Curated by Sergio del Amo and published weekly. Free.
- mrhaki's Groovy Goodness
- mrhaki's Grails Goodness
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