RE: New RPG programmers

Kirkwood Community College, 6301 Kirkwood Blvd. SW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
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Very good 2 year programs, AS.400, Mainframe, PC, Networking, ...

Besure to take the classes instructed by Jerry Fotral (The Flusher!!!)
and/or Curt Rawson (Guru). You may hate them at the end of the 2 years, but
you will have learned something....


Duane


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Carolla [mailto:carolla@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 2:16 PM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: New RPG programmers
> 
> 
> You have to be close to me to see the 4-5 gray hairs (If my hair
> weren't black, you wouldn't be able to see them)... I am 35, and have
> only been programming RPG for about 3 years (although I have been on
> the AS/400 for 15 years, and doing CL for the entirety of it, and SQL
> for about 7-8 years).  I will be training a new RPG programmer here in
> the next few weeks, and he is around 22.  Which brings me to a
> question -- Other than spending 10-12 years looking at example progs,
> what training courses are out there for beginning (haven't ever edited
> or seen a source member on the AS/400, don't even know what RPG stands
> for) programmers?
> 
> 
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:15:56 -0500, Greg Garner
> <ggarner_gds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Does the community see where the new crop of RPG 
> programmers is coming from?
> > A few long term iSeries sites are evaluating the "graying" 
> of the community
> > (see the MCPress survey).  They are deciding whether to 
> invest in "new" RPG
> > coders as employees and instead only use contractors as the 
> resource.
> > 
> > Gregory A. Garner
> > Garner Data Systems, Inc.
> > 4270 Grand Teton Parkway
> > Suwanee, GA 30024
> > Phone: 770 845 9636
> > Fax:   770 614 3496
> > 
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