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.
I'm completely self-taught (and sometimes it shows). I don't have
much to offer on basic programming skills. I played around with Basic
in my youth briefly, and I got some formal instruction in C++ later
in life but never used it to produce anything more than training
exercises. I've briefly tinkered with Python--enough to convince
myself that I could learn it if I had to, though I've never had to.
But for VFP, I first taught myself dbXL using the examples in the
manual, and when I had to move from DOS into Windows I taught myself VFP.
The Hentzenwerke books were invaluable to me; I'm sure I never would
have developed any real-world-usable skills without them. Especially:
Hacker's Guide to Visual Foxpro 6.0 (THANKS TED!!!)
The Fundamentals by Whil Hentzen
Effective Techniques for Application Development with Visual Foxpro
(Booth & Sawyer: RIP Ms. Booth)
To a lesser extent:
Advanced Object Oriented Programming with Visual Foxpro 6.0 - Marcus Egger
Debugging Visual Foxpro Applications (Nancy Folsom; whatever happened to her?)
Visual Foxpro Report Writer - Cathy Pountney
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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