The Cape Town Clarion Essentials Training Course

by Danie de Beer

Published 2003-10-30    Printer-friendly version

On 6 October 2003 Raymond Dummer held a 4-day Clarion Essentials Training course at the Green House Faculty of Training Institute in Cape town, South Africa. The course ended with an additional day on object-oriented programming.

The course was attended by nine Clarion Programmers, some as far as Johannesburg (1200km from Cape town) and Arniston (250km from Cape town). Raymond really went out of his way to make everyone feel welcome and relaxed, with a few funny jokes and fine sense of humour.

The really nice about the course was that you did't have to bring your own PC or Laptop. The course was held at a Professional Training Institute, with a well set up Computer Laboratory.

The Course schedule was a follows:

Daily Routine:

Start 08:30

Break 10:00 (Raymond's brain break)

Lunch 12:30-13:00

Break 15:00

End 16:30

Q & A 16:30-??

Day One:

• Introduction
• The Data Dictionary
• Events and Properties
• New Applications

Day Two

• Dynamic Link Libraries
• Clarion Language Statements
• Introduction to OOP

Day Three

• Source Embeds
• Reports
• Debugger

Day Four

• OLE/OCX
• API

Day Five.

• More About OOP
• Closure and some nice things.

Include in the course was a nice meal everyday, to take care of our empty stomachs, and to get us ready for the final part of the day.

What made the course really interesting and very helpful was the fact that Raymond gave us a lot of extra software (source) examples of the Topics covered in the Essentials manual and Handy Utilities. And as with any course... you really pick up some extra tips and help when it comes to the "smoke break," or as Raymond called it, the "Brain Break." There he gave us some useful tips and shortcuts not really covered in the Essential course, but that come in very handy in every day programming.

The course finished on October 10^th, and it was really sad to say goodbye to all the fellow students or Clarion Programmers.

From left to right, front row: Nazla (a.k.a. Nashua), Ernest, Jits , Neil, Robbie. Back row: Danie, Grant, Gerhard, Raymond, Leonard.

The feedback from the participants was very positive, and I felt the course was worth every cent. If you have the opportunity to attend Raymond's courses, jump for it.

For more course information, you can contact Raymond at raymond@soggy.co.za or visit his web page for course schedules and updates.

 

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Danie de Beer was born and raised in South Africa. He is a qualified BTech Electronic Engineer with a Digital Systems Degree and Higher Educational Diploma in Mathematics and Science (1994). Danie started playing with Spektrum ZX 80 and Commendore 64 computers at an early age. After two years in the Military Service, he started as a Junior Mainframe Programmer in 1988, using Cobol, Natural, Vtam Adabas. He moved to PC programming in 1992 at a cement laboratory, where he converted HP Basic programs to Turbo Basic and Clarion Professional Developer 2.0 (DOS). After being promoted to management and taking a six year hiatus from programming, he moved to the United States where he started programming again using Clarion 5.5 EE. He is now changing over to C6.

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