A common question for people is "what language should I learn?", sounds easy enough doesn't it? But in reality is really hard. You have 3 basic other questions to answer: "Do I want to learn about the computer?", "Do I want to learn about how other languages do things?" or "Do I just want to learn something...

Have you ever coded in a scripting language? Be it Python, Ruby or even Beanshell, they're really handy. They can be used for a wide variety of things like GUI, Job Control, text processing, etc programming. They make life easier for you and I; the working people. Groovy is my favourite scripting language because it has simple commands that do...