Re: help !! output screen disapear soon .

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The book Rob mentioned is not available that we know of - there are free 
tutorials - I already pointed out some of them - google on "rpg 
tutorial" and you should find some. They will get you started.

There is one book that costs about 60 dollars US - but do look at the 
tutorials, if you haven't already. Do!! Because everything else will 
cost you something other than time.

One of my colleagues here said, get the 2 main RPG manuals - the 
reference manual and the programmer's guide. Take the programmer's guide 
and start at the beginning - read it carefully. There are some examples 
in there. Try them out. If they have you work with files, find out how 
to create a physical file or a logical file or a display file or a 
printer file - there are other manuals for that, you can look at 
www.iseries.ibm.com/infocenter for those manuals, too. You will find 
them under Database in the menu, I think.

The other thing is to find sample code - there is a lot out there - then 
download it, print it, and start typing it. See what it does. Make 
changes. See what happens.

Vern

new_id Y wrote:
> Thanks,But Is that book free , If you have any links will be so nice .
> Good luck
> --- On Wed, 7/1/09, Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: help  !! output screen disapear soon .
> To: "RPG programming on the IBM i / System i" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 8:55 PM
>
> That was a great book, albeit not written for RPG IV - but that is easy 
> enough to convert over, IMO.
>
> The best thing about it might be, that it is the only real documentation 
> on UIM - of which many of us use the help panel groups.
>
> Regards
> Vern
>
> rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>   
> > There used to be a book called "Application Development by Example".  It 
> > went through baby steps creating a PF with DDS, screens, programs etc with 
> > RPG.  It was for RPG400 and covered the basics of SEU, PDM, etc.  Was 
> > quite good.  But seriously dated.
> >
> > With IBM's push away from 5250 I can't see them refreshing this.  Even if 
> > they covered RDi instead of SEU and PDM.  Anyone else may have an agenda 
> > based on their 'style' and preferences.
> >
> > Back when I taught a dos 3.? class I had to cover both the command line 
> > and the primitive pre-Windows GUI stuff for everything.  Basically doubled 
> > the time it took to teach anything.
> >
> > Rob Berendt
> >    
> >