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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

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