Progress software developers university course in TTU - PUG Baltic Annual Conference 2017 - by Liis Vanem and Veronika Repnau - Helmes

1. How we created 40 new
Progress developers in just
4 months
Liis Vanem
Veronika Repnau

2. Presenters
Liis Vanem
• Progress Team Lead in Helmes
• Project Manager of teaching Progress in
Tallinn Technical University
Veronika Repnau
• Lecturer in Tallinn Technical University

3. Agenda
• Idea
• Lecturers?
• How to build business critical solutions in Progress?
• What was the reality?
• Obstacles
• Feedback
• Plans

4. From where this idea came from?
Let’s go to university to talk
about Progress technologies
November 2015

5. Let’s do it!
Where this idea came from?
December 2015

6. January 2016
No lecturers No materials Only 9 months
to go

7. How we found lecturers?

8. Innovative Guy
Lauri Greenbaum
Handsome Guy
Kristjan Adrat
Beautiful Girl
Veronika Repnau
Smart Guy
Kristjan Karp
Young Guy
Chris Kokka
Foreign Guy
Jarmo Nieminen
Experienced Guy
Heino Talvik
Keeping-an-
eye-on-
everybody Girl
Liis Vanem

9. Topics what we covered
• OpenEdge ABL , OOP
• Progress RDBMS- Sport2000
• OE applications as REST Web Applications
• Telerik, Analytics360, Pro2, Corticon
• Creating OE Data Object Services
• Kendo UI and Telerik Platform for OE
• Integrations – appserver, weebspeed
• Developing the game – „Othello“
• Developing Webshop for exam

10. First practice
• Introduced Developer Studio
• Different ways „Hello world!“

11. Game challenge „Othello“
• Modern Revers- Othello
• Game rules
• Challenge rules
• API description
• Running the game

12. WebShop
• The expected
result of the inital
task for exam

13. WebShop requirements
• Create new customer
• Update existing customer
• Delete customer (can not delete if there are any orders for the customer)
• Create new item
• Update existing item
• Delete item (can not delete if item is connected to any order or item quantity is not zero)
• Create new order for customer and add items to this order
• Show customer list (search with name or address)
• Show items list (search with item name or price(cheaper or more expensive that specified price))
• Show orders for one customer

14. WebShop - DB Sports2000
• Customer
• Customer have orders
• Order have orderline
• Every orderline have item

15. WebShop - Layers
• Customer
• Customer have orders
• Order have orderline
• Every orderline have item

16. Student final assignment examples

17. Obstacles what we faced
• KENDO UI builder 30 days trial – semester was 4 months
• OE Developers Kit: Classroom Edition
• Installation
• Not last version
• 5 DB connections – difficult to manage for students

18. One nice finding
• https://abldojo.services.progress.com/

19. Feedback from students
• Lecturers were very friendly, helpful and with good humor
• Skype chat with lecturers was very good idea, so we got to ask help 24/7 and Heino always
responded. When does he sleeps? :)
• Jarmo’s hand-on workshop on Kendo UI and Telerik Platform for OE was very rememberable,
hands-on workshops are always the best
• 100% one of the best subjects in Tallinn Technical University

20. Future plans
• Continue in 2017 and 2018
• More close co-operation with SEB IT
• Plan is to provide scholarship to Progress students
• Practice possibilities from January 2018

21. Thanks to everybody who participated!