Sams teach yourself COBOL in 24 hours

Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 24 Hours consists of five parts. In each part, you learn and build upon all the elements of the COBOL language, writing programs and improving upon them as your competency increases. You study the different types of data handled by COBOL and how to use this data in your programs. You learn the integral parts of a COBOL program and how to communicate through the user interface.

Table of contents

Introduction

Part I COBOL PROGRAM BASICS

Hour 1 Getting Started

Hour 2 Writing Your First Program in COBOL

Hour 3 Different Data Types

Hour 4 Basic User Interface

Hour 5 Procedure Division

Hour 6 Manipulating Data

Hour 7 Manipulating String Data

Hour 8 Conditional Statements

Hour 9 The Evaluate Statement

Hour 10 Processing Loops

Hour 11 Advanced Perform Statements

Hour 12 Tables

Part II FILE HANDLING

Hour 13 Sequential Files

Hour 14 Indexed Files

Hour 15 Reading Indexed File Records

Hour 16 Updating Indexed File Records

Hour 17 Sorting

Part III BUSINESS PROCESSING

Hour 18 Master File Updating

Hour 19 Reporting

Hour 20 Advanced Reporting

Part IV MISCELLANEOUS FUNCTIONS

Hour 21 Date Manipulation

Hour 22 Other Intrinsic Functions

Part V ADVANCED TOPICS

Hour 23 The Call Interface

Hour 24 The Graphical User Interface

Appendix A Quiz and Exercise Questions and Answers

Index