When I set out to learn about Java programming on WebSphere using VisualAge, I was shocked to learn just how large an investment in time I would have to make to master these skills. I thought I'd never be able to learn it all. But after wading through countless redbooks, tutorials, manuals, and Java books (I bought and read over twenty!) I finally began to understand how the pieces all fit together.

Frankly, I got a bit angry about all I had to go through. I never located any one educational resource that opened the door for me. I knew if I had to spend months to master these important skills, others were equally frustrated.

Realizing the need for "real world" training within the iSeries community, I created Start Here: VisualAge for Java for WebSphere. With this dynamic hands-on training, which is not available from any other source, I have eliminated the theory and abstractions and developed a concise step-by-step training method which has successfully taken RPG programmers, with absolutely no prior Java or Web experience, and had them coding Java applications for WebSphere in one week!

You see, practically all Java books and courses start off with simple, nonsensical examples, then go immediately into long discussions about object-oriented theory, as implemented in Java. That's fine, in a way, but you really don't need to know this to get started with Java and WebSphere programming. The books and courses then go into the amazingly complicated Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) and applets, and possibly continue with "Swing". At the very end, there might be a few pages about servlets. All of these books and courses are really trying to teach Java programming for client applications, not server applications. And, as you know, client programming is much more involved than writing servlets and JavaServer Pages to run in WebSphere Application Server on your AS/400 system.

I'm not saying you shouldn't learn all of the o-o theory you can, along with AWT, applets and Swing. I am saying that if you cut out those subjects in the beginning, you can concentrate on what you really need to know to work with WebSphere. And if you are a pretty good RPG or COBOL programmer on the AS/400 system, it will take about a week to learn the basics of WebSphere programming. Here's what two of my course attendees wrote after completing the course:

"It presented Java in an easy to understand manner. The approach rewarded you by letting you access the AS/400, and create Web pages." Timothy Fox, Penske Truck Leasing, Green Hills, PA

"I have NEVER learned as much in a class that was immediately applicable to my work assignments. I was insecure with my Web enablement responsibilities until I had this class. I now know how to post data for review on a Web page." Theresa O'Dell, USDA, Kansas City, MO

Learn VisualAge for Java and WebSphere programming in a week? Sure, why not? These people and many others have. This is the course I wish I had when I started learning these skills.

You see, I understand what AS/400 programmers need to know to get started with these tools and environments. I've developed several hands-on training courses, among them Using Microsoft Visual Basic with the AS/400 (which I taught at IBM's Rochester, MN facility), the IBM Learning Services course Using Net.Data with the AS/400 (taught at IBM Dallas, Atlanta, Rochester and San Francisco), and other Web development and Java courses for private seminars.

Everything in my newest course, Start Here: VisualAge for Java for WebSphere is specifically tailored for the AS/400 programming professional, with the goal of getting you doing productive, quality work in the shortest time possible.

So if you've been frustrated with other attempts to learn Java, and don't know where or how to start . . . Start Here. This is the course that will get you going. Guaranteed!

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