RE: Hi everyone! Can you help??

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What's this "training program?"  Has anyone seen one?  


-----Original Message-----
From: Buck Calabro [mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 6:25 AM
To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Hi everyone! Can you help??


If your employer doesn't have a training programme in place for you to learn
RPG, I would suggest visiting http://www.midrange.com and follow the links
to the Books.  Each book you buy helps to support the mailing list.  Your
education will need to be influenced by one major question:  Will you be
working with older legacy code, or will you be writing new code?  If legacy
code, study the RPG cycle.  If new code, ignore the chapters on the cycle,
matching record and level breaks.  In my opinion RPG is not difficult, and
the most difficult portion of your education will be learning the
interaction between CL and RPG; especially file overrides.  Be sure to get a
book on CL programming as well as RPG.  Make friends with the computer
operator at your site, and learn the operational commands: wrksplf, sbmjob,
wrksbmjob and so on.  It will make your education go much faster.

When you get started, and you run into a problem, try to post a very
specific question.  If you post a question like "How do I retrieve data from
a disk file?" you are likely to get the answer: "Read The Fine Manual"
(RTFM).  Rather, do some research first, (use the debugger!) and when you
discover that the "no record found" indicator comes on for every CHAIN, ask
something like "I'm doing a CHAIN and the not found indicator is always on."
You'll find better responses (check that your F spec has a K for keyed
access) and you'll get your problem solved faster.

Buck Calabro

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tajinder Sabherwal 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 6:24 PM
> To:   RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Hi everyone!  Can you help??
> 
> Hi, my name is Tajinder Sabherwal and I've just joined the mailing list.
> 
> I absolutely new to RPG programming and was wondering if someone could
> give 
> me some information regarding RPG/400 programming.  Also are there any 
> recommended sites to goto for more information?  I'd be really grateful
> for 
> any help.
> 
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