Product DescriptionSams Teach Yourself COBOL in 21 Days provides the necessary information needed to successfully enter the next century. . You'll find complete coverage of the syntax, standards, and programming of COBOL-putting you on the right track to the Year 2000 With the help of a programming expert, you will master the features of COBOL and learn to update legacy codes and debug your applications. The step-by-step examples in Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 21 Days guide you down the road of understanding and progress.
Guides readers through a system in which they will learn COBOL in a reasonable amount of time
The year 2000 problem is driving heavy demand for COBOL programmers
The Teach Yourself...format is a proven winner
The first edition of Teach Yourself COBOL in 21 Days has been a bestseller, and sales have doubled in the last 6 months
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Not quite STRUCTURED
This programming book is not quite Structured that is confusing the readers, even to experienced COBOL programmers.
For example, in the first chapter page 19, in the PROCEDURE DIVISION, there should have been only one command statement 'STOP RUN.' in a single line. The author gave 2 extra lines as 'PROGRAM-BEGIN.' and 'PROGRAM-DONE.' as 2 extra modules or Subs (VB) or Functions(C) in other programming languages. Throughout the book, the unstructured programming style carried on since ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent "launch point" for those entering a COBOL environ.
I've been recommending this book to my clients for over a year now. "COBOL in 21 days" Has provided a solid foundation for both new programmers and those that are transitioning from current languages to legacy systems.
The authors approach is to lay down the fundamental structure of the language, then give you a series of "hands on" excercises that perform most of the functions that you find in a business environment. You become "COBOL competent" very quickly.
Rating: - good beginner level cobol introduction
I majored in C.S. in the 80's but never took COBOL. While the book doesn't cover any advanced topics, it provides a solid foundation of COBOL knowledge. An experienced programmer with no knowledge of COBOL should be able to make it through this book in about two weeks (there are actually 7 bonus days on top of the 21 primary lessons). If you know who Bjarn Stroustrup is, this book is probably not for you. If you want an introduction to programming, or know some programming and want to learn ... Read More
Rating: - Learn unstructured ANSI 74 (24 year old) COBOL in 21days.
This book teaches you ANSI 74 unstructured COBOL. ANSI 85 COBOL (which is now 13 years old) is mentioned but not used in coding examples. The ANSI 89 addition to the standard (instrinsic functions) is not covered at all. Modularity and encapsulation can be done quite well even in '74 COBOL but the reader is completely uneducated after finishing this book. And the reader would never guess that most modern COBOL compilers (including new IBM mainframes) support complete object orientation and that ... Read More
- Not quite STRUCTURED
- Excellent "launch point" for those entering a COBOL environ.
- Learn unstructured ANSI 74 (24 year old) COBOL in 21days.
