I'm pretty new to the SAP environment.
My career was as an analyst-programmer where I studied business informatics.
In my new challenge at Economic Software Systems I'm learning to develop in ABAP since Jan 2014.
I had installed Eclipse before taking the Eclipse Explorer Challenge, for working with SAP HANA Cloud Platform.
The feature explorer shows for all who are starting, like I, that the ABAP language has a plent of options even for those who have an ERP SAP installed, or does not work directly with it.
I think the feature explorer is a good first step - for getting tied to Eclipse much to less information, I guess.
All the best,
Gabriel