>We have a brand new developer (yikes), completely new to VFP, and database development too. We're using VFP 6.0 SP3.

Mark,

I was that kind of "new guy" a few years back, coming to FPW from Fortran with a few years of "home with the kids" in between.

It didn't occur to me or anyone else to use books, other than the manuals, but it was extremely helpful for me to make small changes to a system that I otherwise understood well as a user (I had the big picture), and also to share an office with another developer so it was really easy to ask a question.

The other thing that made me learn really fast - a sort of personality thing - is that I would rather dig out my own answers after a hint of where to look ("Read about the BLANK command"), than have someone tell me what to do. That office mate always asked and I always dug, and he's in the same job while I have had 2 promotions.