Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133 EAN: 9780471438656 ISBN: 0471438650 Label: John Wiley & Sons Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 57 Publication Date: 2001-07 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Sales Rank: 1751149 Studio: John Wiley & Sons
Despite years of dire predictions, COBOL is still thriving. In fact, it's practically a perennial. New version of COBOL for PCs now enable you to use COBOL to develop interesting graphical user interfaces, create Web pages, and even incorporate components from other languages such as Visual Basic.
Now with COBOL FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, 10/E, you can take advantage of these exciting new developments and learn how to become a master COBOL programmer.
Features: * Includes new integrated coverage of interactive programming. * Shows how to design programs that area easy to read, debug, modify, and maintain. * Covers information processing and systems concepts that will help you interact with users and systems analysts when designing programs. * Introduces you to programming tools such as pseudocode and hierarchy charts that make program logic more structured, modular, and top-down. * Presents useful techniques for maintaining and modifying older 'legacy' programs. * Includes a student CD containing all data for all programming assignments as well as the full Practice Program from each chapter.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - This book is not for programmers who want to study COBOL after working with object-oriented languages.
I get this book at work like main manual for all our mainframe COBOL programmers. All the mainframe COBOL people in our shop are old-timers with more then 15 years experience. This book for them is like a bible. I'm object-oriented programmer working with G4 languages almost 14 years. This book for me was like 15 years ago. So I bought for my self new-days COBOL books and was able to study this language. I keep this COBOL book on my desk in case I have to communicate with current mainframe ... Read More
Rating: - Well designed book
COBOL, indeed it is still very widely used today and it is here to stay for a good while, especially with COBOL 2008 coming up.
If you have no knowledge in COBOL whatsoever, this book will be your starting point.
The thing I like about this book is how they give the many variations of how you can use a certain piece of code, like the many variations of using the EVALUATE statement.
The authors is not boring. He's straight to the point and tells you on many occasions ... Read More
Rating: - got what I ordered
I got what I ordered on time a the specified price.
Rating: - One of the worst programming books for beginners!
As the reader below me already said, this book is simply too technical. It assumes you know something about this language. Clearly not for beginners. As you can notice, most of the people who gave this book a positive rating are either professors or experienced programmers. None of them was a beginner when they bought the book.
Anyway, I had to pick this book up for one of my college classes. The first source code example is 21 lines long (no comments). I repeat: 21 LINES. A first-program ... Read More
Rating: - Absolutely Horrendous Book
I use this book at my University or rather, it is the book used for the course, but we never once use it. Why might you ask? Because unlike all reviews before that said this book was great, this book is written so technically and to understand it, you have to already know something about Cobol. If you need help with a program and want to look it up in the book hoping it will help you, forget it. There is no way this book is of any help and it is so hard to understand. You are better off buying some other ... Read More
- got what I ordered
- One of the worst programming books for beginners!
- Absolutely Horrendous Book
