Many Acucorp customers have used these online training materials to offer self-paced instruction to employees who prefer a learning environment that is not Instructor-assisted.

Other customers prefer to combine our online materials with access to an Instructor.

For example, some sites enroll employees in an Acucorp Instructor-led training course, and then empower those students to answer questions for additional employees who use the self-paced materials online.

Some sites arrange for question-and-answer sessions with an Acucorp Instructor who phones their site to "meet" regularly with online students.

Some Acucorp customers use our online training materials for refresher courses for employees previously trained by an Instructor, or as an introduction to a new version of the Acucorp products.

However you prefer to work with the courses, we are pleased to offer the following self-paced instruction modules with corresponding Lab Exercises. Your Acucorp Sales professional would be pleased to arrange for an Instructor to assist your site with the materials, if you would find that helpful.

• Compiler
• Runtime
• Debugger
• Vision Indexed File System
• Utilities

• Data access solutions, including Acu4GL®, AcuODBC®, and AcuSQL®
• Remote file access with AcuServer®
• Thin client technology and distributed computing options with AcuConnect®

• The workspace and its views
• Organizing projects
• Configuring the environment

• Customizing your compiler options
• Customizing you runtime options
• Runtime configuration variables and the Configuration File Editor

• Environment settings
• Creating object libraries
• Saving, importing, and exporting groups of settings

• General features of the code editor
• Customizing the code editor
• Special features of the code editor (vertical block select, comment / uncomment block, find in files, find in objects, bookmarks, etc.)

• Reference tools, including paragraph, variable, and constants lists that can be accessed using handy pop-up menus
• Built in hints and tips, such as the code completion tool and mouse-over tips
• Creation and use of code templates to simplify coding

• Working with the runtime debugger
• Working with the AcuBench integrated debugger
• Setting debugger options
• Using trace files

• Creating and editing data files in the File Designer
• Assigning data to projects in the Data Designer
• Creating Working-Storage data items in the Working Storage Data Designer.
• Creating Linkage Section data items in the Linkage Section Data Designer.

• Assign properties to the screen
• Manage screen events
• Add controls to the screen
• Use the Drag and Drop interface to associate screen controls and data fields

• Manipulate the tab order of controls on the screen
• Create multiple screens for a single program
• Test screens
• Create screen templates

• Windows and screens
• ACUCOBOL-GT window syntax and generated Screen Section code
• Window terminology (parent, child, sibling, active, current)

• Types of windows (initial, standard, floating, independent, modal, modeless)
• Using multithreading to improve window handling

• ACUCOBOL-GT support for graphical controls
• Types of graphical controls
• Control components (type, handle, ID)
• Control properties and the AcuBench Property window interface

• ACUCOBOL-GT syntax for graphical controls and AcuBench-generated Screen Section code
• Events associated with graphical controls

• Comparison of graphical and character-based reports created with the graphical Report Composer
• The Report Composer interface (Section Controller, Report Component Toolbox, Drag and Drop, Expression Builder)

• Report-specific I/O handling
• Custom user modifications needed for printing
• Creating a report

• Introduction to version (source) control concepts
• Overview of AcuBench file types
• Considerations for operating in a team environment

• Consistency management
• The AcuBench Version Control interface

• Introduction to the wizard
• Benefits and restrictions of the wizard
• Setting conversion options
• Converting character screens to graphical screens

• Introduction to thin client technology
• The thin client as a development tool
• Client and server setup for development
• Thin client deployment options

• Client and server configuration for deployment
• Internet deployment with the Web thin client

• Overview of XML concepts
• Comparing XML data with data definitions in a COBOL FD
• Accessing XML data with the xml2fd utility
• Writing COBOL data files to XML with AcuXML
• Introduction to the C$XML library routine

• Overview of reports in ACUCOBOL-GT
• Introduction to Windows printing
• The WIN$PRINTER library routine