Not that it's going to help you much, but our standard approach at the previous company I worked at was to tell people to read the Java Tutorial and then start fixing bugs.....
We'd typically send them off for occasional week-long courses over a period of a year to improve their skills, but it's really the immediate immersion thing that gets you up to speed. Fixing a bug is rewarding and lets you focus on getting up to speed on a small part of the system without having to know the whole thing. General advice - trying to teach people the entire J2EE stack is waaaaaay too much. I would suggest getting them up to speed on Java and JSP and leaving the rest till later. That what we'd do with new guys - get them making small changes to the front-end, and let them learn the stack from the presentation layer downwards. Regards, Noel. Soren Aalto wrote: > I'm trying to come up with a training plan to reskill developers > who were Adabas/Natural programs into Java developers. > > I've talked to VZAP, who have an extensive 19-week long > offering, but will compress this into a 6 week full time course > as a "corporate offering." Don't think I can send people away > for 6 weeks and am looking for a combination of week-long > classroom instruction courses that could be taken over a > longer period. > > Looking a Sun courses -- the goal I have in mind is to learn: > Java, JDBC, Servlet/JSP environment, so basically to get > through Sun's > > https://www.suntrainingcatalogue.com/eduserv/client/loadCourse.do?coId=en_ZA_SL-314-EE5&coCourseCode=SL-314-EE5&l=en_ZA > <https://www.suntrainingcatalogue.com/eduserv/client/loadCourse.do?coId=en_ZA_SL-314-EE5&coCourseCode=SL-314-EE5&l=en_ZA> > > Web Component Development with Servlet and JSP Technologies (SL-314-EE5). > > The only official prerequisite for this is Java Programming Language > (SL-275-SE6), > which covers a bunch of GUI/Swing stuff I don't really care about but > does not touch JDBC...and JDBC is sort of briefly covered in the > web development course. > > I'm a bit sceptical about two weeks of training...even with time > served at work in between...getting us from *here* to *there*. > > But time-away-from work and costwise, I could afford to send > people on this. > > What recommendations do people have? I don't even see much else > in the Sun curriculum I could pad this out with. > > -- > Soren Aalto > Director: ICT > University of Zululand > > > > -- > Soren Aalto > Director: ICT > University of Zululand > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CTJUG Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Forum For the ctjug home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
