Beginning COBOL for Programmers

✍ Scribed by Michael Coughlan (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 575
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Beginning COBOL for Programmers is a comprehensive, sophisticated tutorial and modular skills reference on the COBOL programming language for established programmers. This book is for you if you are a developer who would like to - or must - add COBOL to your repertoire. Perhaps you recognize the opportunities presented by the current COBOL skills crisis, or you may be working in a mission critical enterprise which retains legacy COBOL applications. Whatever your situation, Beginning COBOL for Programmers meets your needs as an established programmer moving to COBOL

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
Introduction to COBOL....Pages 1-15
COBOL Foundation....Pages 17-36
Data Declaration in COBOL....Pages 37-54
Procedure Division Basics....Pages 55-72
Control Structures: Selection....Pages 73-108
Control Structures: Iteration....Pages 109-129
Introduction to Sequential Files....Pages 131-156
Advanced Sequential Files....Pages 157-180
Edited Pictures....Pages 181-203
Processing Sequential Files....Pages 205-245
Creating Tabular Data....Pages 247-272
Advanced Data Declaration....Pages 273-302
Searching Tabular Data....Pages 303-326
Sorting and Merging....Pages 327-359
String Manipulation....Pages 361-397
Creating Large Systems....Pages 399-433
Direct Access Files....Pages 435-476
The COBOL Report Writer....Pages 477-518
OO-COBOL....Pages 519-546
Back Matter....Pages 547-556

✦ Subjects

Computer Science, general; Programming Techniques