Tell him to pick as his first project a small data centered problem that he needs to solve. Something that he might normally try to solve with Excel, except that it needs more than one table and preferably not more than three. Help him to keep it simple and in the zone where VFP shines.

Alex

>How would anyone who has been using FoxPro for many years respond to a person who asked the below question and who has no knowledge of VFP and wants you to teach him all about Visual FoxPro in 5 minutes? I want to give him as much useful information as I can, but I am perplexed as to how to approach this.
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>Hi Cecil,
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>Well, I got Foxpro, installed it, loaded the project, and built
>the executable. However, it's a foreign world compared to my
>Pascal or C++ environments! Perhaps when you have the time, you
>could write a few paragraph description of the project, the
>signficance of the various files, etc -- sort of a project
>overview? It would really help out.
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>Thanks,
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