Environment Set Up

To get started with Groovy, you'll need to set up your development environment. Here are the steps to install Groovy on various platforms:

1. Windows:

   • Download the Groovy distribution from the official website (https://groovy-lang.org/download.html)
   • Extract the contents of the ZIP file to a directory of your choice
   • Set the GROOVY_HOME environment variable to the directory where you extracted the contents of the ZIP file
   • Add the bin directory of the Groovy distribution to your PATH environment variable
   • Open a command prompt and type groovy to verify that the installation was successful

2. MacOS and Linux:

   • Download the Groovy distribution from the official website (https://groovy-lang.org/download.html)
   • Extract the contents of the tar.gz file to a directory of your choice
   • Set the GROOVY_HOME environment variable to the directory where you extracted the contents of the tar.gz file
   • Add the bin directory of the Groovy distribution to your PATH environment variable
   • Open a terminal and type groovy to verify that the installation was successful

3. Using SDKMAN!:

   • Open a terminal and type curl -s "https://get.sdkman.io" | bash to install SDKMAN!
   • Type sdk install groovy to install Groovy
   • Type groovy to verify that the installation was successful

Note: The exact steps may vary slightly depending on your operating system and the version of Groovy that you're installing.

Once you have Groovy installed, you can start writing Groovy scripts and applications. You can either write Groovy scripts in a text editor and run them from the command line, or you can use an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) such as Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA to write, run, and debug Groovy code.