RE: New RPG programmers

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Buck Calabro
> 
> I don't think there is a need for an RPG tutorial, and this is how my
> thinking goes.  RPG isn't a difficult language.
(...)
> About the only thing a beginner really
> needs help on (that is, something that isn't found in C, Java, or VB)
> is external device files like display and printers.  Especially
> subfiles and how the various indicators affect the output.

Perhaps.  But I think the basic concepts of an integrated database are
probably pretty important.  Also, an introduction to the control
structures, especially the SELECT statement, would be nice.  And the
concepts of the INFDS and PSDS, and finally indicators (including the
techniques for removing as many as possible).

Throw all that together by walking through a basic working example, and
I think it would make a good tutorial.

Joe