Learning ABAP for BPC

Question

Hello everyone,
I understand Script logic very well, but I'd like to learn ABAP also.  I've programmed in T-SQL, a bit in VB.NET, and a lot in Script logic, but I know little to nothing about how to program in ABAP.
What I'd like to start with is to find out (beginning to end) how to take something like:
*WHEN Account
*IS "Net_Income"
*REC(Factor=1,Account="Equity")
*ENDWHEN
*COMMIT
And translate that into ABAP so that I could get it to work with a BPC NW app.  Is there a book I could buy that would show me end to end how to do this?  Maybe a book on BW and ABAP?  I don't think doing this is simple...
Thank you,
Grant

Answer 1

Hi Grant and Nilanjan,
BADIs are written in ABAP, so I think you are both talking about the same thing
You'll want to focus on learning ABAP Objects because this is the modern ABAP programming paradigm and BPC's BADIs and most of the BPC application code are based on the ABAP Objects framework. A couple of book recommendations I've seen (though I have not read either):
Next Generation ABAP Development (2nd edition) - [http://www.amazon.com/Next-Generation-ABAP-Development-2nd/dp/1592293522/] - (Rich appears on this forum sometimes to answer BPC questions)
ABAP Objects: Introduction to Programming SAP Applications - [http://www.amazon.com/ABAP-Objects-Introduction-Programming-Applications/dp/0201750805/]
Both of these books go into way more detail than you will probably need in order to program simple BADIs, but you can read the parts you need, and when you run into something new and need more information, these books should cover the topic.
Cheers,
Ethan