RE: Time to get serious

I cannot speak for anyone other than myself, but considering I have
recently started using RPG I will not claim to be any kind of expert or
even a knowledgeable user, but I can say that so far I have been quite
impressed with its capabilities.

One thing that touches on your comments David, I did a national search
about three months ago for iSeries training at a variety of colleges and
universities and found that only about 20 nationally even offered a
single course.


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 8:15 PM
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Subject: Re: Time to get serious


Joe Pluta wrote:
> In my mind, a programmer that doesn't know about RPG is by definition 
> not particularly well rounded -- they in fact have a significant hole 
> in their knowledge of programming.

I think that would probably account for the majority of people who have 
recently completed formal programming training.

I just checked the current course catalog for two of the area community 
colleges (Harper and Prairie State, two that I've attended) and couldn't

find a single reference to RPG *OR* COBOL programming classes in their 
normal AAS program.  Java, C++, and VB were all prominent though. 
(Caveat: I didn't actually look at every course, but their search system

seemed fairly good.)  College of Dupage seems to have a single RPG 
programming class (Emphasis on understanding RPG control cycle logic) 
and a few COBOL classes.

Obviously my research is nowhere near exhaustive ... but I suspect you 
will find that "RPG" is listed in the DP101-Intro to Data Processing 
class in the "Computer History" category.

Of course, I could be wrong :)

david
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