Hi Doug,

>Long answer. As I had lamented in a previous thread, Visual FoxPro is in a struggle for its life. At present, I have found NO college or University that actually teaches courses in VFP. (In the US)

In thinking about this, I don't know how any university could teach VFP effectively. You have to have a pretty good background in a lot of different areas: Data Design, OOP, Programming Structures. If a University used VFP for all of these things there would not be much exposure to other languages. I think that it may be easier (on the students and the staff) to each the concept courses using tools that just do a couple of things. Once you gain the understanding of how to do something, the language doesn't really matter. I graduated college knowing a little COBOL, PASCAL, RBASE and Basic. Most of my work was done on mainframes and I didn't even know how to change a directory on a PC. Once I got over the OS hurdle, learning FP (granted version 1.0) was nothing.

At the same time, the universities are not going to make any money running semester courses for "live" developers. We just don't have the time to learn is small segments like that even though it is probably better.

>There are certification exams, but there are NO exam guides or training cirriculum available anywhere, with the sole exception of Jim Booth's crash courses at his facility.

Whil has announced plans for the Certification Exam study guide, so that is a start. The VFP exams are only about a year old and VFP developers and writers are not willing to put out quick books to get them on the shelf. VFP developers are proud and will take the time to get it right. Unfortunately that means waiting.

FWIW, I agree with a lot of the other things that you said. These were the only two points that I had any thoughts on. :-)