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Create a Groovy project

Create a Groovy project

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Create a Groovy project

- [Instructor] IntelliJ IDEA supports many languages other than Java. And it's particularly strong when using languages that run on top of the Java Virtual Machine or JVM. Groovy is one of these languages. It's an open source language, that's managed by Apache. And you can download the groovy SDK from this webpage @groovy-lang.org. I've already downloaded the zip file for the most recent version of groovy. As of this recording to my desktop. And I'll extract the contents of the zip file right here. After extracting the contents you'll have a folder that has the same name and you can actually move this folder anywhere you want on your computer. I do recommend putting it in a directory where the entire path doesn't have any space characters. I'll leave it on the desktop for this demonstration. Now I'll create a new project, and I'll choose groovy as the language. I need a groovy library and that's the directory that I…

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