Stephen, Short to medium term is to support and maintain the legacy VFP system and maybe gradually convert it over onto maybe C#. Having said that we are still converting from DBF's onto SQL at the moment after about 12 months work and only 40% completed so there is lots of new work that will still involve VFP coding.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: 15 January 2015 14:30 To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: Training Suggestions On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 3:49 AM, Dave Crozier <[email protected]> wrote: > Following my pre-Christmas post regarding aptitude tests for > prospective programming staff we have now offered to post to what we > consider is a suitable applicant. The person in question is a First > class honours degree student in IT - but NO programming experience at > all, which struck me a weird as how can you consider yourself an IT > professional and know the depths of TCP/IP, networking protocol etc. > and Never have been exposed to coding in any shape or form ever??? Eh, > what is that all about .... But maybe that is a topic for another discussion > in the future. > > I need to get him over the initial hurdle of OOP and basic structured > programming techniques"if... endif" "do ... while" etc. and wonder if > anyone has any resources bookmarked that would assist in the learning > process. Don't get me wrong, I am going to mentor him closely but > really need to let him loose on some type of programming beginners > course so I can see if he sinks or swims (hopefully the latter). > > It is scary how much we as pro's carry in our heads about techniques > to solve problems in code and when you begin to look at it from a > total beginner's point of view one realises what a huge leap in > understanding and experience you have over mere mortals!! > > Any resource links will be useful and I specifically don't want him to > start with C# or .Net stuff as I think that VFP is the ideal > environment (being a fairly closed instruction set allied with > Database inclusion) to get him up to speed before moving on to SQL Server, > TSQL and C# etc. > Ultimately he will be supporting our huge VFP legacy code so once > again a good reason for starting with VFP. > > I am working on the basis of him being fairly self-sufficient in VFP > to be able to read/understand our existing system bot not necessarily > be able to modify it ... and estimate this will take 3-4 months. No > timescale is being imposed on his learning phase but I want to get the > most information into him in as short a period as possible. > > ----------------- What is the new hire expected to do? Are they the lead on the conversion of what is in place today to what will be the new standard going forward? You may be setting up a training for things this person will have no real need of going forward? Only know this because we hired someone who was out of "spec" compared to the rest of their team two years ago. After they got on board it was "explained" to us that they are doing things in a new direction. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
