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On 25-Feb-08, at 3:41 PM, Brad Stone wrote:

Having done RPG CGI for a few years now, and dealing with lots of folks,
depending on your current skill level I wouldn't start with a toolkit like
CGIDEV2 or eRPG SDK, but with raw APIs and learning HTML, JavaScript, etc...

I'm with you on the Javascript and HTML Brad - but why one earth force anyone to understand all the frustrating nastiness of the underlying APIs? I gave up teaching the "raw" stuff because students just found it so frustrating once they tried to go beyond the provided examples. On the other hand with a kit like CGIDEV2 or your eRPG you can study the underpinnings if you want but you don't have to if you'd rather just get on with it.

I wouldn't force someone to learn assembler before learning an HLL - I'm interested in why you see this differently.

Jon Paris

www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com



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