ABL Essentials provides ABL developers the foundation required to understand the powerful underlying capabilities of the combination of ABL and OpenEdge suite of products to write compact, efficient, purposeful code using powerful syntax and constructs to process data.

What you will learn
After taking this course, you should be able to:

Retrieve and display data from OpenEdge database

Develop program logic

Use queries

Create, Update, and delete records

Manage transactions

Manage record locking

Handle errors

Develop modular code

Integrate business logic into an application

Prerequisites
There are no prerequisite courses for ABL Essentials. However, you should have some programming experience in another language and should:

Understand relational databases

Identify and apply the following structured programming constructs:

Assignment

Looping

Conditional branching

Modularity (e.g., subroutine or function)