Self learning ABAP

[Former Member]

Hi Experts/SAP Mentors and my friends.

Hope you are having a good time.

I have a very common query. "How to learn ABAP ? "

I have following liabilities:

1. I am currently working in an IT firm where my work is totally different. I am a .NET developer.
2. But I want to switch my career to SAP very badly.
3. I can not go for any training institutes or online training program because of time and financial constarints.
4. And the most important, I don't have experience in the relevant field so my chances are pretty less to be recruited by any firm which works on SAP.

Keeping all these in mind I came to a conclusion I should do it myself. I am not sure how. But I am pretty much obstinate to learn which brought me crawling here in SAP community network.

What I expect from you experts?

1. Is there any free online tutorial site which is good and I can rely on it for learning step by step.
2. Softwares required.
3. Books and online resources
4. Time in which I can learn at least a know-how so that I can apply for the job in any SAP based company
5. Will a "Know-How" will be enough to get job. If not, What should I do.

Thanks in Advance,

Ankit

[former_member212705]

HI Ankit,

You can start SAP ABAP. Its not tough,just like other languages

Go for SAP Press Books ,they have sea of knowledge.

For online you can

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/d3/2e974d35c511d1829f0000e829fbfe/frameset.htm

Other good tutorial site is SAP Technical.

For practice you can get SAP from SAP site. you will have to buy licence.

Regards,

A.Trivedi

Message was edited by: Ashish Trivedi

[Former Member]

Hi ashish,

You can learn ABAP Easily , As you have experince in Coding part(.NET).  In online we hae one book ABAP for beginners   in 21 days. I think it will be helpful to you.

Check Below link once:

http://www.sapnet.ru/abap21day/

http://scn.sap.com/thread/700372

Regards,
Giri

[Former Member]

Hi Ashish,

Thank you for your timely response.

Regards,

Ankit

[Former Member]

Thanks Giri. I appreciate your quick response.

Regards,

Ankit

[Former Member]

Hi Ankit,

Even I am in the learning phase of ABAP.

You can use help.sap.com for all your ABAP queries.

Google basic ABAP topics and take help of SCN for documents on Basic ABAP topics. Try searching for Syntax related to same.

You can go through below link. I think it will help.

http://saptechnical.com/

But make sure you practice ABAP. Reading stuff wont help that much. If its possible ask your Company to provide you access to some training server. So that you can do hands on.

Refer any material but HANDS ON is must .

Regards,

Priyanka

[Former Member]

Hi Priayanka,

Thak you for you quick response. I shall go through the links once I am home free in my couch.

Regards,

Ankit

[Former Member]

Hi Ankit,

Your carrier will be good if you choose SAP ABAP.

1. You want to learn the basics of the ABAP Programming at first .

2. As a .Net developer developer within less time you can learn the basics.

you can follow.

Basics --- SAP Black Book.

but for practice purpose you need to install the dump version in your system.

It will be good for u.

As you ask will u get a job in SAP based Company, you will definitely get if u r good with your basics.

Please let me know if u want know any further details.

Thanks

Pavan.N

[Former Member]

Thank you Pawan. Its awesome Community. We get queries answered in minutes. Why was I unaware of this community. Anyways, Its better to be late than going upstream.

Reagrds,

Ankit

[Former Member]

Hello Ankit,

1. Is there any free online tutorial site which is good and I can rely on it for learning step by step.

Yes! You can learn. One Website is there where you can learn ABAP. and One book is there named as BC ABAP this is good book for ABAP.

Software required.

For practicing you can use IDES. This is available on internet, you can find it easily.  

Books and online resources

I guess question 1 have the answer for the same.

Time in which I can learn at least a know-how so that I can apply for the job in any SAP based company

minimum 60-80 Hours to get enough knowledge of ABAP.

Will a "Know-How" will be enough to get job. If not, What should I do?

In SAP-ABAP field if you are going on Experience then you need some real time  Experience, otherwise as i replied in second last question in 40-60 hours you can get some good enough knowledge so that in interview you can say i am good in ABAP. And out of 10 i can rate myself 6, and 6 is good enough for a fresher.. 

BR

ChanS..

p.s.: But that 60-80 Hours must have a deep concentrate on SAP only and it should have at least 50% of practice on SAP. 

[Former Member]

Hi Brother,

That was really quck response. Thank you for your time and painstaking effort.

Regards,

Ankit

[Former Member]

Dear Ankit, We are not suppose to use Brother/DUDE/Guys  and all on SCN, Thanks for calling me Brother i liked it.. but for next time please take care of it. You can call me by my first name.

[Former Member]

That website link was not working. Here is the new one . Link

[Former Member]

Hi Chandra,

Now ok??

I was not using this because it seemed absurd. But anyways now I have your permission .

[Former Member]

Hi Ankit,

You need to learn language called ABAP.

http://sapbrainsonline.com/pdfdownload.php?sec=1

But to write code you need SAP installed in your system. You can download the trial version from the SCN site.

Regards,

Alenlee MJ

[Former Member]

Thank you Alenlee for your reply.

[Jitendra_Kansal]

Hi Ankit,

I am not that expert in ABAP but I can say one thing it is very interesting to work with. I guess lot of links have already been shared in above replies by experts. You just need to spend some time to get familiar with its terms. I am sure you will enjoy it. Good luck.

Rrgds,

Jitendra

[Former Member]

Thank you JItendra for your timely respnse to the query.

[Sijin_Chandran]

Hello Ankit ,

Install IDES server in your laptop and make your laptop your Laboratory for Experimenting with SAP ( makes me remind Dexter's Laboratory ).

You will not find it at all difficult to learn ABAP as you have .NET Programming Experience , same SQL concepts here also  ( that same SELECT , INNER JOINS ......).

SAP in 21 days will make your basic fundamentals clear like Data Structures , Operations etc and etc.

By just googling you can get many site , especially one very famous for demo programs and codes.

And last but not the least our SCN

[Former Member]

Thanks for the guidance Sijin.

[Virinchy]

Hey Ankit,

I also started to learn ABAP since a while and really found this interesting. The guys in this community are really helpful and always give quick responses.

But to get more experience in ABAP or any module in SAP we need to spend more time by practicing on ides and ofcourse youtube also have some interesting stuff.

Regards

Viru

[Former Member]

Yeah thats so true Viru. Happy learning and great career ahead !

[Former Member]

RICEF

[Former Member]

@#$%^&*()+_)(*&^%$#!

[Sijin_Chandran]

What was that

Just google about RICEF+ABAP and you will come to know what she actually mean't .

[Former Member]

First "KS" and top of that "RICEF" .  It was a real bouncer to newbie like me .

Will google.

Its really my sincere request to you experts, please explain if you are answering to a newbie. One can't learn overnight. Takes some time.

[Sijin_Chandran]

No offence Ankit

R-reports like Classical reports and ALV

I- Interfaces IDOCS, RFC

C-conversions like BDC LSMW

E- enhancements like userexits and BADIS

F- forms like scripts and smartform

http://scn.sap.com/thread/497377

Above are the core objects created using  ABAP Development .

[Former Member]

Hey Ankit,

I just was in rush and i wanted to touch the "key-point". I started with SAP B1 and then moved to R3 in just some time. And i too wanted a road-map to learn ABAP. So i too am not "expert", but since expression "friend" was mentioned in your question - i answered. RICEF is a road-map which if we follow, we can cover all topics. Now time is something dependent on an individual. Like i myself have no in-depth knowledge on anything, , i try bargaining with my head, to let me cover all RICEF concepts real time, at-least once. Like how we dont get in depth of any book at first... So this is what im doing and this is my honest opinion. I did not mean to be rude. I wonder why im always misinterpreted Anyways, hope i made sense.

Regards,

KS

[Former Member]

Dear KS,

Don't get me wrong. I had no intention to hurt you or make mockery of you

I am extremely sorry if that hurt you.

Be happy always !!

Wish you a great career and best in your endeavours.

Now gimmmme a smile!!

[Former Member]

Thank you!

[Former Member]

its k!

[venkatakrishna]

Dear Ankit,

There is lot of Videos exits in youtube and google to learn ABAP , just search with term SAP ABAP online classes and send me your mail id.

Thanks,

Venkat

[Former Member]

My email Id is public. You can get it from my profile. I am not sure about sharing email ids in responses is right or not. Please get from my profile

[Former Member]

Hi Ankat,

I compiled a list of videos here to help get people started with ABAP http://www.saptraininghq.com/the-best-31-sap-abap-programming-training-videos

Hope it helps.

Regards,

Pete

[Former Member]

Hi Pete,

Thanks for the video links.

Regards,

Ankit