Beginner Hybrid Progress Academy for OpenEdge
Discover OpenEdge and ABL in our four-week foundational course with instructor-led and on-demand training.
What is Hybrid Progress Academy?
- An education program to help new developers quickly acquire appropriate skills to leverage Progress OpenEdge Advanced Business Language for enterprise-class application development.
- The concept of the Progress Academy program is to focus on the key essential skills for a starting developer.
- The Hybrid Academy is a combination of instructor-led training and self-paced on-demand training.
What to Expect
Affordable Price
Become skilled in OpenEdge for 1500 Euros / 1400 Pounds / 2250 AUD / 1696 USD in just four weeks.
Certification
Receive a Progress OpenEdge Developer Certificate upon completion of the course.
Resources and Support
Students get access to the Progress Developer Kit.
Agenda
Preparation before attending
Self-paced courses including:
- Introduction to Progress OpenEdge
- Introduction to Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge (PDSOE)
- Introduction to Progress OpenEdge Database 12 (optional)
Meet and greet your instructor
VM and PDSOE Setup
4GL/ABL Essentials
- Data Access (basic retrieve and display of data)
- Developing Program Logic
- Queries and Joins
- Create, Update and Delete operations
- Database triggers
- Transactions
4GL/ABL Essentials (continued)
- Record Locking
- Record Scoping
- Classic Error Handling Management
- Modular Development and Event-Driven Programming
- Integrating and Reusing Business Logic with OpenEdge GUIs
- Integrating and Reusing Business Logic with the Progress Application Server for OpenEdge (PAS for OpenEdge)
Introduction to Progress Application Server OpenEdge for Developers (self-paced course)
Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
- 4GL – ABL Mapping OO Concepts
OpenEdge Application Development with OO ABL (part 1)
- Developing OO ABL Classes with Temp-Tables
- Using the PDSOE Debugger
- Structured Error Handling (self-paced course)
Using ProDataSets
Introduction to the Progress OpenEdge Application/Reference Architecture (self-paced course)
OpenEdge Application Development with OO ABL (part 2)
- Developing OERA-compliant OO ABL Business Entity Classes – (part 1)
- Testing ABL Classes with the ABL Unit Framework
- Developing OERA-Compliant OO ABL Business Entity Classes – (part 2)
- Handling Errors with ABL
Introduction to Progress OpenEdge Integration (self-paced course)
Application Development with REST Web Services
- Introduction to HTTP and REST in Progress OpenEdge
- Providing Progress OpenEdge Applications as REST Web Applications
- Developing Business Entities for Progress OpenEdge Data Object Services
- Creating Progress OpenEdge Data Object Services
- Build a Modern RESTful Application in OpenEdge (self-paced course)
- Accessing REST Services from a Progress OpenEdge ABL Application (self-paced course)
Training Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of what a software application is as well as the concepts of client and server parts.
- Some prior programming experience (in any language) is helpful.
Available Dates
3 FEB - 28 FEB 2025 | English | Virtual
Hybrid Progress Academy for OpenEdge
3 JUN - 1 JUL 2025 | English | Virtual
Hybrid Progress Academy for OpenEdge
27 OCT - 21 NOV 2025 | English | Virtual
Hybrid Progress Academy for OpenEdge
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