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Instructor-led sessions explain the process, demonstrate the work, and connect individual topics to the larger operating model.
Instructor-led enterprise training
SAP ABAP Fundamentals: From Beginner To Developer
Build practical, job-relevant capability through live instruction and structured independent practice.
Live sessions5
Instructor time25 hours
Independent practice80 hours
Typical cadenceWeekly · same weekday
Elapsed learning5 weeks
Course overview
Build understanding through guided instruction and serious practice.
Build practical, job-relevant capability through live instruction and structured independent practice.
Who this is for
Practical capability for the work ahead.
A hands-on entry course for aspiring junior SAP ABAP developers and technical consultants. Graduates will not be independent production developers after five weeks; they will be prepared to complete supervised junior-level ABAP tasks, investigate common defects, explain a small delivered solution, and progress into focused ABAP Cloud/RAP or established-system ABAP specialization. Standard delivery requires each student to have reliable access to an ADT-compatible ABAP practice environment throughout the full five-week cycle.
SAP modules
Subject areas covered in this course.
How learning works
A weekly cycle built around application.
Live instruction introduces and connects the material. Independent practice turns that material into usable capability.
Independent practice
Expect approximately three to four hours of structured practice for every hour of live instruction.
Trouble-ticket support
Show-stopping practice issues can be documented for instructor review, normally with a response within one to two business days.
Session-by-session curriculum
What you will learn and practice.
Open each session to review the included public topics and the practice expected before the next instructor meeting.
1 ABAP Development Setup and First Working Application5 live hours · 15 practice hours
Establish a modern ABAP development workflow and enable each learner to create, activate, run, and correct a small ABAP application independently.
Included topics
- ABAP developer role, SAP landscape, and modern development direction
- ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse: project connection, packages, repository objects, activation, and execution
- ABAP syntax, comments, elementary data objects, constants, declarations, assignments, and expressions
- First application workflow: write, activate, run, inspect output, and make small corrections
- Classic ABAP Workbench and SAP GUI transaction terminology
Independent practice
Remove environment and syntax friction early so the first practice week produces repeated successful edit-activate-run-debug cycles rather than passive reading.
- Create and connect an ABAP Development Tools (ADT) project to the assigned ABAP environment.
- Create a package and development object using the assigned naming convention.
- Write, activate, and execute a small ABAP application that declares variables, performs simple calculations, and produces readable output.
- Deliberately introduce and correct at least three syntax or activation errors.
- Record a structured trouble ticket with object name, exact steps, error text, expected result, and screenshot if blocked by a genuine system issue.
Ready for the next session when: Learner can independently navigate ADT, create and activate a development object in the assigned package, write elementary ABAP statements, and distinguish syntax, activation, and runtime problems.
2 Program Logic, Internal Tables, and Debugging5 live hours · 16 practice hours
Enable learners to transform data with modern ABAP control logic, internal tables, and systematic debugger use.
Included topics
- Control flow, expressions, string processing, validation, and exception basics
- Structures and internal tables: declaration, population, LOOP, READ, SORT, and table processing
- ABAP debugger: breakpoints, stepping, variable inspection, table inspection, and defect isolation
- Readable code, naming, formatting, and responsible use of developer AI assistance
- Guided debugging clinic and practice-task decomposition
Independent practice
Build the repetition needed to move from isolated syntax knowledge to independently traceable program logic.
- Extend the first application with conditions, loops, string handling, and exception-aware validation.
- Declare, populate, loop through, sort, read, and modify standard internal tables using explicit work areas and modern syntax.
- Use the debugger to set a breakpoint, step through a loop, inspect variables and internal tables, and identify a deliberately seeded defect.
- Refactor one repetitive code segment into a small reusable method or procedure as preparation for object-oriented work.
Ready for the next session when: Learner can write and debug a small data-processing application that uses conditions, loops, structures, and internal tables without step-by-step instructor guidance.
3 Database Access, CDS, and Data-Driven Output5 live hours · 16 practice hours
Enable learners to retrieve SAP data safely using ABAP SQL, understand table definitions, and recognize the role of CDS in modern ABAP development.
Included topics
- Data modeling orientation: tables, keys, fields, data elements, and safe inspection of definitions
- ABAP SQL: SELECT, WHERE conditions, single-row and multi-row reads, typed targets, and result handling
- Core Data Services (CDS): analyze a view, consume a view, and understand associations conceptually
- Data-driven application output and selection validation
- Classical reports, selection screens, and ALV terminology
Independent practice
Shift learners from invented in-memory examples to data-driven programming while reinforcing the debugger and internal-table skills from Session 2.
- Inspect assigned database-table metadata and identify fields, keys, and appropriate data types.
- Write ABAP SQL SELECT statements with selection conditions and move retrieved data into typed structures or internal tables.
- Build a small read-only data utility that validates selection input, retrieves records, and presents understandable output.
- Analyze an instructor-provided CDS view definition and retrieve data through it.
- Debug an empty-result, incorrect-filter, or type-mismatch issue and document the diagnosis.
Ready for the next session when: Learner can inspect a table definition, write a basic read-only ABAP SQL query, process retrieved rows in an internal table, and explain at a high level why CDS is used in modern ABAP.
4 Object-Oriented ABAP and Introductory RAP Development5 live hours · 17 practice hours
Enable learners to organize ABAP logic in classes and methods, then connect those skills to a small modern RAP business-object application.
Included topics
- Object-oriented ABAP: classes, objects, attributes, constructors, methods, visibility, and encapsulation
- Modularization, reusable logic, exceptions, and refactoring a small application
- ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP): business object, service flow, generated artifacts, behavior, and introductory Entity Manipulation Language
- ABAP Cloud, released APIs, and Clean Core principles
Independent practice
Convert procedural code into reusable units and introduce the contemporary ABAP Cloud development model through a constrained, achievable application scenario.
- Create a local or global ABAP class with attributes, constructor, and public methods.
- Refactor a prior data utility so retrieval, validation, and presentation logic are separated into methods.
- Use encapsulation and exception handling to prevent invalid input from silently producing incorrect results.
- Create or complete instructor-scaffolded RAP artifacts for a simple managed business object, activate them, and verify the generated service or UI behavior.
- Use a supplied EML example to read or modify a business object under instructor-provided safeguards.
Ready for the next session when: Learner can build and call a simple ABAP class, explain encapsulation, follow the main RAP artifact flow, and complete a small scaffolded RAP enhancement with debugging evidence.
5 Developer Capstone, Troubleshooting, and Project Readiness5 live hours · 16 practice hours
Consolidate the course into a demonstrable mini-deliverable: a data-driven ABAP application or scaffolded RAP enhancement that the learner can explain, debug, and improve.
Included topics
- Guided end-to-end capstone build: requirement interpretation, object creation, data access, business logic, and output or RAP behavior
- Testing, debugger-led troubleshooting, and correction of common beginner defects
- Development lifecycle basics: packages, activation dependencies, transports, object ownership, and change communication
- Code review, developer communication, and structured trouble-ticket evidence
- Portfolio, interview explanation, and follow-on learning roadmap
- Established-system ABAP orientation: enhancements, function modules, BAPIs, forms, IDocs, and module-pool vocabulary
Independent practice
Turn individual syntax exercises into repeatable project behavior: clarify a requirement, inspect data, implement safely, test, debug, communicate evidence, and identify the next skill path.
- Complete a mini-capstone that includes validated input, ABAP SQL or CDS-based data access, internal-table processing, at least one class or method, and clear output or a scaffolded RAP behavior change.
- Test normal, boundary, and invalid-input cases; capture test evidence and correct at least one seeded or self-found defect.
- Perform a peer-style code walkthrough explaining object purpose, data flow, validation, debugger findings, and remaining limitations.
- Prepare a short project-readiness portfolio entry containing the requirement, technical approach, object list, test results, defect fix, and lessons learned.
- Create a high-quality trouble ticket for one simulated access, activation, data, or runtime blocker.
Ready for the next session when: Course complete: learner can independently undertake supervised junior-level ABAP practice tasks, explain a small working deliverable, diagnose common basic defects, and pursue a defined follow-on path in RAP, ABAP Cloud, integrations, or established-system ABAP maintenance.
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