RE: RPG instruction

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pam D wrote using, alas, HTML:

>I am an RPG instructor and would 
>appreciate input from the "field". 
>
>I teach the RPG/400 class.
>
>Are there some hot topics you would 
>like to see covered to better prepare 
>students for the "real world"?

The number one thing you should teach your students to do is to think like a
programmer.  Read Mr McConnell's book _Code Complete_ and show his ideas in
RPG examples.  One big problem many green programmers have is problem
analysis and decomposition.  Drill your students on decomposition - it helps
with requirements, architecture, coding, debugging and testing.  In "the
real world", they're unlikely to get much in the way of guidance, so
understanding fundamental principles is critical.

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"We are what we repeatedly do.
 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle


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