Structured Cobol
McGraw-Hill Inc.,US (Publisher)
4th Edition
Published on 1. January 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
800 pages
978-0-07-069196-4 (ISBN)
Description
This fourth edition continues to teach theory of programming structure as well as COBOL (Common Business Orientated Language). It provides a guide to what structured programming is and how it is implemented in COBOL. Each chapter contains specific programming assignments and 11 complete sample programs are provided as well as structure charts. Two compilers support this text: RM/COBOL 85 and MicroFocus. New chapters on file processing, random file processing and interactive programming are also included in this edition.
More details
Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
ch.
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 224 mm
Weight
1360 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-069196-4 (9780070691964)
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Content
Part 1 The program development process: a first look at COBOL; more on the identification and environment and data divisions. Part 2 Introduction to structured programming: more on the procedure division; debugging/program testing supplement; keyboard input and screen display; improving the appearance of printed output; arithmetic operations. Part 3 Principles of report design: report program design and coding; conditional operations; designing and writing control break programs. Part 4 Data validation concepts: data validation design and coding; processing arrays/tables; processing multi-dimension arrays/tables. Part 5 Principles of file processing: sorting; sequential master transaction processing; direct access principles; program management. Appendices: the COBOL report writer feature; system-names for selected COBOL compilers; intrinsic functions; printer control from COBOL; COBOL-85 language formats; COBOL reserved words.