Re: Long time RPGer needs help getting started in new methods

Dennis,

Thanks for the reply and the links. I will look into them.

I am still a bit leery of putting WDSC on my laptop for performance reasons.
It really killed my desktop performance and it is actually rare that I bring
my laptop to work, but I may just install it for my own learning purposes.

I have learned rpg-free to an extent. Program examples and tools I have
downloaded use it as well as a very few (<5) programs in the main package we
use. The main problem is that I cannot put anything into production with it
because our package is mainly supported by an off-site consultant who I
think would not stand for it.

Blair

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There are a lot of tutorials to get you started.  Here are a couple
examples:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/education/enablement/wbt/sw738.html

http://www.modernrpgiv.com/ModernProgramming/WDSCiTutorials/tabid/66/Default.aspx

And then here is a listing of many other systemI sites

http://search400.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid3_gci837742,00.html

Personally, I would reccommend loading WDSc onto your laptop and start
"playing" with it.  You also might want to learn RPG-FREE.  It's not an
OO, (object oriented), language but it has many of the same
characteristics and syntax, and it's very easy to learn since it's
basically just prettier RPG.

As far as I've seen there's no ABC123 way to get started, but just setting
up WDSc and learning RSE will keep you quite busy for a while.  And once
you are well on your way this group will be able to answer any of your
questions.  =)