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Excellent points all! Simple, yet a lot of food for thought. Rob Berendt -- Group Dekko Services, LLC Dept 01.073 PO Box 2000 Dock 108 6928N 400E Kendallville, IN 46755 http://www.dekko.com "Jon Paris" <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 03/01/2005 12:58 PM Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Jim Cooper <Jim.Cooper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, jim.hawkins@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject RE: Time to get serious 2) How much focus should be placed on RPG II and the cycle? How much is it being used in your shop? Zero RPG II. And even less RPG III <grin>. The cycle should be an "you may see this in your travels" at the _end_ of an RPG IV course. 3) Should there be more emphasis on RPG IV and ILE? Why would you teach anything _but_ RPG IV? If they learn IV they can understand III. Let me phrase this as a question - when you teach them VB do you teach them version 3 of VB? Version 4? If not, then why would you teach an even _older_ version of RPG. RPG III was replaced over 10 years ago. To continue to teach it is nuts in my opinion. 5) How important are specific languages verses the ability to learn languages and understand the business processes? If the student has an aptitude for programming then they will learn multiple languages easily. If they do not have aptitude then you'd better hope they can learn the business process. 6) Any other thoughts? Talk to Jim Cooper of Lambton College about the updates he made to his RPG classes. There's no reason to force students into the green screen world. I honestly believe this is one of the problems with a lack of RPG students. When you could be learning VB, .Net and other cool web things, why on earth would _any_ student want to sign up for boring old green screens and (yawn) RPG II/III? It makes no sense. If you want to make it attractive, have them build Web Interactions with WDSC, client-server GUI with VisualAge for RPG, web applications using CGIDEV2 and RPG, etc. etc. Make subprocedures a major focus of the RPG classes. What they learn will apply to any language. Jon Paris Partner400 www.Partner400.com -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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