{"id":706,"date":"2007-01-31T12:07:07","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T10:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rare-it.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/01\/31\/note-to-self-use-groovy-to-aid-in-studying-java\/"},"modified":"2007-01-31T12:07:07","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T10:07:07","slug":"note-to-self-use-groovy-to-aid-in-studying-java","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2007\/01\/note-to-self-use-groovy-to-aid-in-studying-java\/","title":{"rendered":"Note to self: use Groovy to aid in studying Java?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since <a href=\"http:\/\/groovy.codehaus.org\/\">Groovy<\/a> can use the standard Java libraries, Groovy can be used to learn these libraries. It&#8217;s easy to modify a script and run it, and see what the change does. There are <a href=\"http:\/\/groovy.codehaus.org\/Differences+from+Java\">differences<\/a> to the real Java language of course.<\/p>\n<p>Investigate whether Groovy will aid in learning real Java, or is it just another reason to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Procrastination\">procrastinate<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Groovy can use the standard Java libraries, Groovy can be used to learn these libraries. It&#8217;s easy to modify a script and run it, and see what the change does. There are differences to the real Java language of course. Investigate whether Groovy will aid in learning real Java, or is it just another <a href='https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2007\/01\/note-to-self-use-groovy-to-aid-in-studying-java\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}