Re: Recommendations for novice programmers**** THANK YOU!!!! ****

I wish to thank you and others on this list who have given me so
many useful recommendations!!!!
Regards,
Tony Mallozzi

At 08:48 AM 9/30/98, you wrote:
>I have most of the RPGIV books available from both News400 and MidRange
>Computing, and have read them all.  My personal favorites ...
>
>RPGIV Jump Start by Bryan Meyers ... the best all around intro to RPGIV
>I've found, although doesn't always have the practical details when you
>start to write your first program.
>
>RPGIV - The Modern RPG Language by Bob Cozzi ... an excellent description
>of every operation code available in RPGIV - also a companion summary book
>available, but I don't find it near as good.
>
>ILE RPG for RPG/400 Programmers by Robin Klima and Richard Shaler ... a
>little confusing to read, but does have some good examples of RPGIII vs
RPGIV.
>
>Introduction to RPGIV by Bob Cozzi ... aimed more at someone who doesn't
>already know RPGIII, but may have experience with another language. 
>
>Note these books all focus on RPGIV, not ILE.  Other good resources are
>MidRange Computing Magazine (excellent source of RPGIV and ILE articles,
>although magazine sometimes has a lot of hardware stuff that's not as
>relevant to a programmer), News400 (also excellent RPGIV and ILE articles),
>RPG Source newsletter (published by News400 ... sometimes gets a little
>deep, IMHO), as well as the websites for both magazines.
>
>Just an aside ... my company has spent a good chunk of money in the last 18
>months on books (our "library" has grown from 0 books to probably close to
>50), and they have been wonderful resources for our development department.
> If that's an option for you and your company, it's a really worthwhile
>investment.
>   
>At 06:00 AM 9/30/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>Hi!
>>I am a novice RPG IV programmer and I would like to know
>>what resources(books,sites,downloads,etc.) you would recommend to
>>get off to a good start.
>>Thanks,
>>Tony Mallozzi
>>
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