Re: Learning RPG IV advanced techniques -- RPG400-L

Maria, I hope this doesn't come across as condescending.

I have been doing ILE for at least 25 years starting with V7R2 writing my
first service programs.

Over those 25 years, I have written I don't know how many service programs
including at great deal with dynamic memory. I have always enjoyed writing
system utilities which almost always involve using dynamic memory to some
degree.

One of those early projects was a standard error handler which used a
linked list. I still use it in almost all my projects today.

One of my most recent projects is iBuild, a build tool at
www.sourceforge.org/projects/iBuild which has a large body of code written
using ILE which you might want to look at.

My reasons for mentioning this is that I have accumulated a very large body
of knowledge and I am getting on in years and my health is not the best and
I have been thinking about some way to pass on this knowledge.

It has been suggested that I do a course on YouTube. My problem being that
I am a lousy teacher. In any case, how to organize and what to teach.

I am wondering if talking or working with someone or group of people might
help me to organize how to do this.

Anyway, some thoughts from the community would be appreciated.

On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 12:23 AM Maria Lucia Stoppa <mlstoppa@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hi all,
hope you are fine and healthy.

I am here to ask for help on learning RPG IV advanced techniques, hoping
this won't be considered off-topic.

During the last decade, I have gone through all RPG IV enhancement all by
myself, reading books, looking for articles, looking over Stackoverflow
questions and, of course, through this amazing forum-like mailing list. The
company I worked for didn't agree with my hunger of knowledge, so I did
everything I could to improve my skills alone, with an eye to my pocket.

Now, a few months ago I started a new job where all my expertise can make a
difference in the transition to a more modern programming style, but I
realized that there are some critical concepts which I don't master very
well, that meaning I may struggle about a single compilation for days
simply trying to understand what's wrong and guessing what changes to make
to have the job done. Sometimes, following some of the threads of this
group it's difficult for me as well.

These critical topics are about dynamic use of memory, pointers, and most
of all procedures, service programs, so on and so forth. I feel I need a
structured course or workshop where I can confront my errors with a teacher
and have an organized vision of all of these advanced RPG IV techniques.

As I am not in a position to ask my current company to pay for me, I am
here to ask whether you know about some qualified online training I can
take to fulfil the gap, with reasonable prices.

I made some researches but the prices are unaffordable to me, being usually
more than $2500 for 3-4 days.

Finally, I resolved to ask you for some information in case some of you do
this job.

Thank you very much

Lucia

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