DEV-1110

COBOL Programming Workshop

Length

5 Days

Audience

Beginning programmers who have taken a course in Introduction to data processing or the equivalent, programmers with experience in another language who have not yet programmed in COBOL.

Prerequisites

Basic computer concepts.

Overview

This course is designed for students who know another programming language or for whom COBOL is the first. It introduces basic programming techniques and gives the fundamentals of COBOL including an understanding of good program structure. The techniques and instructions learned in lecture will be applied in a series of computer workshops.

Topics Covered

· Overview of COBOL

Program development

Introduction to four divisions

A look at a simple program

· Data Division

File descriptions

Working storage

Picture, value clauses

· Procedure Division

Structured guidelines

I/O commands

Arithmetic operations

Editing

IF statements

PERFORM

· Control break processing

Single level

Multiple levels

· Table handling

REDEFINES clause

OCCURS clause

Subscripting, indexing

Searching methods

· Subroutine linkage

Linkage Section

CALL

Passing parameters