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Welcome to Progress
Welcome, and congratulations for choosing Progress as your development product for database applications. Progress has a rich array of features and options, all contributing to an application development environment that allows you to deliver complete database applications quickly and easily. This tutorial couldn’t possibly cover all the features of Progress, but it does cover those features that you need to begin coding right away.
The tutorial focuses on teaching you the Progress application development language. You’ll use the demonstration database that comes with Progress to jump past database development and into code development. You’re ready right now to discover why programming in the Progress
4GL
is the best way to turn your ideas into robust applications.Before you begin the tutorial, make sure that your hardware is set up correctly and that Progress is installed and ready to go. For complete installation and setup instructions, see the Progress Installation and Configuration Guide Version 9 for Windows or Progress Installation and Configuration Guide Version 9 for UNIX .
This chapter introduces you to some fundamental concepts and terminology. After you read this chapter, you’ll be ready to begin working with the software in Getting Started."
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