Re: Looking for opinions on education

If you're not partial to IBMi-only I would recommend learning Microsoft .Net as an option.

If you want the bleeding edge learn Node. PHP would be my next choice.

And then Java, but Java seems to be passe these days, but it's powerful.

Either way you can learn for free if you're a hands on learner.

And the list goes on...... :-)

Regards,


Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p. 952.486.6802
w. helpsystems.com

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message: 7
date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 18:42:54 -0500
from: Glenn Gundermann <glenn.gundermann@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Looking for opinions on education

Hi Richard,

Some will tell you which language they think you should learn, including among others Python, PHP, etc.
I would suggest you might want to learn some new tooling to develop modern applications on the IBM i. For example, check out LANSA, BCD, or Profound Logic just to name a few in no particular order.



Yours truly,

Glenn Gundermann
Email: glenn.gundermann@xxxxxxxxx
Work: (905) 486-1162 x 239
Cell: (416) 317-3144


On 16 February 2017 at 18:36, <rjrjr64@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

All,

I am ashamed to say that I?ve not kept up with the latest and
greatest features of our platform. That said, I am diving in to
learning newer languages and was wondering what your thoughts were. I
am considering dot net and Java. Should I take one before the other?
Are there other languages/techniques that I should also be considering?

Any feedback is appreciated.

All the best,

Richard Reeve

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