RE: Learning RPG

        Our company has also used Judith Yaeger's "Programming in RPG/400"
to educate ourselves in RPGIV. I personally like the book and refer back to
it often, the only thing I did not like was in Chapter 12 she describes
using *NAMVAR in defining data areas and *NAMVAR is only used in previous
versions of RPG. In RPGIV it has been switched to *DTAARA. 

        Richard

>               I taught myself RPG/400 from Judith Yaeger's "Programming in
> RPG/400".  The book seems to cover all of the bases and there is a chapter
> on RPGII for comparison to the language now.  There is also a chapter on
> RPGIV to show how the language has and is progressing.   Either this book
> or
> the instructor's manual comes with a floppy containing the DDS and Data to
> write the programs at the end of each chapter.
>               As far as internal vs external printer the book starts out
> with internal O-specs and by chapter 5 it has progressed to externally
> described files.   
>               I had to learn around my daily responsibilities as well and
> I found that the longest it took to get through a chapter was a week and a
> half to two weeks.
> 
>               LAC
> 
>                               -----Original Message-----
>                               From:   boothm@earth.Goddard.edu
> [mailto:boothm@earth.Goddard.edu]
>                               Sent:   Saturday, April 01, 2000 12:00 PM
>                               To:     rpg400-l@midrange.com
>                               Subject:        Learning RPG
> 
>                               What is the best way for two people to learn
> RPG?  They taught themselves 
>                               Query and are pretty good with SQL but they
> need RPG to print the reports 
>                               they want.  They each already have work to
> do, so they will be learning it 
>                               during the nooks and crannies.
> 
>                               The first question is:  RPG or RPGIV?  Their
> software is mostly RPG.
> 
>                               Should they learn internal or external
> printer files?
> 
>                               Any comments or recommendations for
> self-teach materials would be 
>                               appreciated.
>                               _______________________
>                               Booth Martin
>                               boothm@earth.goddard.edu
>                               http://www.spy.net/~booth
>                               _______________________
> 
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