topic Re: How to practice ABAP while learning? in Application Development and Automation Discussions

How to practice ABAP while learning?

former_member1842 — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 13:45:23 GMT

I recently started taking classes for ABAP, and also bought a book Complete ABAP.

I installed the Developer Edition for practice.

There aren't many practice examples or assignments in the book, and my tutor also is not very helpful.

With other programming languages there are a lot of resources to learn online.

I am completely lost on how to practice the ABAP coding.

Can somebody help me, how to practice for each topic.

Is there a Cook book for ABAP or any other resource to practice and get better at ABAP programming.

Thanks

Re: How to practice ABAP while learning?

TammyPowlas — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 14:30:01 GMT

There is an ABAP cookbook here: https://www.sap-press.com/abap-cookbook_2174/ - I recommend checking it out

Re: How to practice ABAP while learning?

former_member1842 — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 15:06:14 GMT

Thank you.

Are there any resources to know how real time Development is done.

Any projects or challenges available online.

Re: How to practice ABAP while learning?

TammyPowlas — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 15:08:58 GMT

Hi - I am not sure I follow the "real time" question; perhaps you can watch SAP TechEd Online in a few weeks about ABAP in the Cloud? (just a guess) https://events.sap.com/teched/en/home

Re: How to practice ABAP while learning?

matt — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 06:22:16 GMT

You could try Paul Hardy's ABAP books. They've usually got reasonably realistic examples.

Re: How to practice ABAP while learning?

NTeunckens — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 07:02:42 GMT

The "ABAP Cookbook" and "The Future of ABAP" are good Books. Packt Publishing (link / link) and Espresso Tutorials (link) also have some ABAP-Books worth looking into.

Also, the SAP ABAP Tutorials from the SAP Website can provide an Entrypoint to (new) ABAP Development : https://www.sap.com/developer/tutorial-navigator.tutorials.html?tag=topic:abap-development#tutorials.

It depends on what you want to do or what your Company / Team is working on, as ABAP and SAP have evolved in recent years to embrace other platforms, tools and solutions (such as REST-API's, OData, CDS-views, Fiori-Backend code through Gateway, etc.). There's more to ABAP these days than writing Enhancements and Reports in ERP.

Re: How to practice ABAP while learning?

matt — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 07:33:59 GMT

On that front it's worth looking at OpenSAP courses.