A Simplified Guide to Structured Cobol Programming
Published on 1. February 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
652 pages
978-0-471-61054-0 (ISBN)
Description
Designed for those who require a knowledge of the COBOL language, its programming capabilities and its application to typical business data processing situations, this guide assumes no previous computer programming background. Each chapter is based on one or more example programs applicable to real-life business settings. Treatment is based on the concepts of structured programming. Only a few logical control structures are used throughout the book. All programs used in the text have been tested and run, and computer output is displayed in each case.
More details
Edition
International 2 Revised ed
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 170 mm
Weight
822 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-61054-0 (9780471610540)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Getting Started in COBOL Programming; The Basic Program Structure; Data Division Elements and the Arithmetic Verbs; Program Design; COBOL Structure Statements; A Simple Payroll Program; Pictures and Related Topics; Debugging; Control Breaks; Data Representation and Related Topics; Compound Conditionals; The Seed Catalogue Program; Updating Sequential Files; Table Handling; File Storage Devices and Programming; Character Manipulation; The Report Writer; The COBOL Sort Subprograms; Additional COBOL Topics; Interactive COBOL; Appendix 1: COBOL Reserved Words; Appendix II: Composite Language Skeleton; Appendix III: Programming Standards.