Essential Cobol

This book is intended to lead undergraduates through a complete course in COBOL implementation. The whole of Part I is devoted to a complete coverage of character manipulation, enabling the student to write sophisticated character handling programs. Part II presents a more traditional approach to COBOL teaching by including chapters on searching and sorting, and also selection where coverage of the evaluated statement is completed and the relationship between it and decision tables is fully explored in terms of program design and implementation. CIt includes case studies geared to the textbook and a bank of over 500 multiple-choice questions and all programs appearing in the text are available on disk from the author. Manuals covering the case-study materials and programs therein and the multichoice questions are also available from the author, along with over-head transparencies for most of the diagrams and tables in the book.