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Create a hello world program with EGL
In this tutorial, you will learn how to write and run your first EGL program. Although the program you create will not be powerful or complex, it will demonstrate how an EGL program works.

Overview
Getting started
- Tutorials
- Do and Learn
  - Introducing EGL
    In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a simple dynamic web site using EGL. This site has two pages: one to display a list of records in a database and another to allow users to change the data from one of those records.
  - Create a hello world program with EGL
    In this tutorial, you will learn how to write and run your first EGL program. Although the program you create will not be powerful or complex, it will demonstrate how an EGL program works.
    - Introduction
      In this tutorial, you will learn how to write and run your first EGL program. Although the program you create will not be powerful or complex, it will demonstrate how an EGL program works.
    - Lesson 1: Create an EGL project
      In this lesson, you will enable EGL and create an EGL project to hold your EGL source files.
    - Lesson 2: Create and run an EGL program
      In this lesson, you will learn how to create and run a simple EGL program.
    - Summary
      This is the end of the hello world tutorial for EGL.
  - Create a hello world service with EGL
    In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a simple web service with EGL. Then, you will create a client that uses this service.
  - Create a mortgage application with EGL Rich UI
    Create a Rich UI application so that the user can do the following tasks: calculate monthly mortgage payments, given a loan amount and interest rate; display a pie chart that tells the interest and principal for the life of the mortgage; retrieve any of the payment calculations that were provided earlier to the same user; and display a map of the mortgage lenders who have offices in one or another U.S. zip code.
  - Access a database with EGL Rich UI
    In this tutorial, you create a Rich UI application so that the user can access rows in an SQL database.
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EGL Code Accelerator for IBD
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EGL runtime error messages
Reference
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Notices for IBM Business Developer documentation

Create a hello world program with EGL

In this tutorial, you will learn how to write and run your first EGL program. Although the program you create will not be powerful or complex, it will demonstrate how an EGL program works.

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Time required20 minutes