The aim of the ZingCOBOL, a tutorial aimed at COBOL beginners, is to give the basics of the COBOL programming language for anyone who knows a little bit about computers (not much) and prehaps will have come across another procedural progamming language such as C, BASIC or Pascal.
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COBOL programming site with a comprehensive set of COBOL tutorials making a full COBOL course as well as COBOL lecture notes, COBOL programming exercises with sample solutions, COBOL programming exam specifications with model answers, COBOL project specifications, and over 50 example COBOL programs.
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Nowadays it is common practice to use a particular method of Structured Design before producing the code that will fulfil a particular function. No matter what Design Methodology is used, the whole object of using structured programming techniques is lost if the actual code produced is badly written. Not only must the code fulfil its desired function, and perform it efficiently, it must also be maintainable by all those programmers who follow in your wake. In the life of any program more time is spent on maintenance and enhancement than was ever spent on the original implementation.COBOL is a flexible, free-format language that has very few internal constraints. It does not enforce any particular structural method, instead it allows the individual to adopt whatever structure their particular level of mentality can imagine.
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In this second edition of Teach Yourself COBOL in 21 Days, I have had a chance to correct errors from the first edition, expand on areas that needed elaboration, and write about many of the new and exciting things that are happening in the COBOL world. But most important to me, I have been able to act on the feedback that I have had from readers of the first edition. All of it was good, and all of it was helpful. There are way too many of you to thank. There were lots of little suggestions and a couple of major ones, and they all have been incorporated. I want to thank you all.This is my third project for Sams and Macmillan, and I want to thank Chris Denny for noticing that the first edition was climbing the sales charts and for realizing that it was time for a new edition.
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