Ignore the forms for one day. Open the PDF to the "Command Window" section. Type ? DATE() and ? 2+2 . VFP is unique because the command line is instant.

Start with the Hacker’s Guide to VFP 9 PDF for conceptual simplicity, then use the official Microsoft Solutions Guide as your encyclopedia. Practice by building a simple contact manager. You will quickly realize that Visual FoxPro 9, despite its age, is one of the most elegantly "simple" database languages ever created.

Skip report writing until week two. Immediately build a form with a grid bound to a cursor. If your PDF has the code THISFORM.Grid1.RecordSource = "SELECT * FROM friends INTO CURSOR temp" , you have found a good resource.