Fundamentals from Whil is a great start and I'll be giving it to our new trainee on Monday to get him up to speed before introducing him to the wonderful world of C# and Python.
The great thing is you can give the person a VFP dev system and they don't need anything else to run it unless they progress onto Client/Server - one disk, one solution - finished!
It's quick to install, reliable, with a quantifiable instruction set which people can actually learn as opposed to using C# with visual studio which takes a lot of in depth knowledge of .net before you can class yourself as an accomplished developer.
If they learn on VFP (or Pascal for that matter) it is a great grounding for progressing to other languages. All the basic programming structures are there that exist in most llanguages.
It is nice to say that VFP is still the only data centric language out there with an in-built datastore, which limited though it is (the 2Gb limit) allows the majority if not all stand alone desktop apps to be easily developed, tested and installed in both single and multi user modes.
Yes, I know Python is excellent as well as all the other "flavour of the day" languageslike Ruby, Java etc. but they all require extensions here there and everywhere to function as a true development environment and everyone has their own favourite. There isn't a one product fits all solution.
Rightly or wrongly, there is only one set of development tools in VFP and you can get to master them very quickly - then you can use your skills on other more advanced/challenging languages.
I rest my case your honour!
Dave
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-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Paul H. Tarver Sent: 26 January 2018 15:23 To: ProFox@leafe.com Subject: Foxpro/Programming Training Question
If you had an opportunity to teach a novice who is interested in learning programming in general and specifically with Visual Foxpro who has limited previous programming knowledge and experience, where would you start and are there some preferred VFP training materials/books/videos that are recommended.
In my opinion there are two issues: 1) Basic Programming Skills and 2) VFP specific skills, and I'm interested in your suggestions in how to meet both of those needs. Plus if there are other issues, let me know that as well.
Thanks in advance!
Paul
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