|   A Combination Tutorial and Lab Book for RPG Application Development
The System i RPG & RPG IV Tutorial & Lab Exercises
Author: Brian KellyPrice: $59.95
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Book Description:
Finally, there is an affordable RPG and RPGIV tutorial for System i RPG & RPGIV programming. It is much much less expensive than other available self-study packages because it was built first to be a lab guide. It is designed to help students learn RPG without going broke.
Additionally, this book is designed to be used by Colleges and Universities as an RPG/RPGIV course Lab book for RPG. The book is packaged with a set of Powerpoint slide presentations that are based on the popular System i Pocket RPG & RPGIV Guide (text book). The notes on the slides provide essentially the entire contents of the text book. So, you not only have the tutorial/lab guide, you’ve got hundreds of pages of reference material available on your workstation when you get stuck. This package is designed to make learning convenient. Use the slides with the lab exercises as a reference and then you can use them to teach others in your organization after you learn.
In addition to the 1-2-3 type tutorial and lab exercises in the tutorial/lab guide, it also provides lecture material that not
only helps you learn the language, the material helps you get your labs done right - screens designed, programs compiled, programs executed, and output examined.
All System i lab objects are included on the CD included with the book package. The Labs are well done and well documented and they are built so that you can complete them successfully by visualizing the solution. Since nobody likes to key programs from scratch, the lab exercises are already typed with enough important material redacted to provide painless learning. You learn programming rather than typing. The capstone lab is almost 500 statements of RPGIV learning. By the time you finish the last lab, you will not be a better typist but you will have learned RPG / RPGIV.
There are many RPG books and expensive self studies but there has never been an RPG tutorial/lab guide as affordable
and as well-done as this. You won’t want to put down this comprehensive guide to learning System i RPG/RPGIV now
that you’ve got your hands on it. Considering the age of RPG, this book is almost 50 years overdue.
In today’s IT landscape, most System i shops support both RPG and ILE RPG. Besides its easy-to read down-home writing style, the major benefit of this book is that it is built to be a learning tool and thus it can help anyone whose mission it
is to educate/train new RPG programmers. Programmers are responsible for maintaining and extending the RPG programs that run businesses across the world. Programming in RPG helps get business applications running sooner. Using this tutorial/lab guide help students, neophyte and novices learn the language sooner. For those with a non-System i IT background, this book has enough exercises to help you qualify for an entry level position upon faithful completion.
Contents:
Lecture A: Introduction to the RPG Tutorial Lab Book
Lecture B: Introduction to the RPG Language
Lecture C: System i Development Environment
Lecture D: Setting up the System i for RPG Student Labs
Lab 1: System i Development Familiarity
Lab 2: Working with the Program Development Manager (PDM)
Lab 3: Write a Simple RPG Program
Lecture E: Understanding the RPG Fixed Logic Cycle
Lab 4: Using RPG Externally Described Files
Lab 5: RPG to RPGIV
Lab 6: Create Register with RPG, 2 Input Files Internally Described
Lab 7: Create Register with RPG, 2 Input Files Externally Described
Lab 8: Register -- Internally Described & Externally Described RPGIV
Lab 9: Multi-File Processing Using READ and CHAIN Operations
Lecture F: RPG Is Not Just the Cycle
Lab 10: Introduction to Interactive RPG Programming
Lab 11 Use Display Files with RPG Programs to Update DB Files
Lab 12 Adding to Payroll Program - Menu and Maintenance Functions
Index
Product Details: | Audience: | System i Programmers | | Level: | Novice | | Subject: | Programming, RPG | | Length: | 262 pages | | Format: | Paperback, Perfectbound | | Materials: | CD-ROM | | Publisher: | Let's Go Publish | | Publish Date: | October 2007 |
The System i RPG & RPG IV Tutorial & Lab Exercises
Author: Brian KellyPrice: $59.95
On Sale: $53.96
Availability: Ships next business days
ISBN: 0-00332136-3
SKU: 5933 | |
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