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Difficulty level

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  • Beginner Level Basic programming
  • Approx. 16 hours to complete
  • English Subtitles: English
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  • Professor Tak Auyeung of American River College, said it beautifully, ?A programming language is not a fashion statement? it is used for a purpose. Whether it is to add new features, modify logic, create APIs to integrate it into other applications, or implement modern development practices, businesses around the world need application developers who know COBOL.
  • This introductory COBOL course helps a novice learn the Structure of COBOL programs, Data types & Variable Handling, Intrinsic Functions, Branching logic and more. The goal of the course is to enable the participant to be able to write basic COBOL programs. This is a fantastic compliment to the IBM z/OS Practitioner path for the IBM Mainframe.
  • Join the COBOL Fridays web series. These webinars are curated for first-time programmers, lifelong learners, and anyone who's interested in learning COBOL. http://ibm.biz/cfcoursera
  • On successful completion of this course, learners are eligible to earn their COBOL Programming with VSCode badge.
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Curriculum

COBOL Basics

Welcome to COBOL

VSCode and Extensions

What does COBOL syntax look like?

What are COBOL Divisions?

COBOL Variables

Lab Exercise Guide for Week 1. Time to do Lab 1!

Additional information

Week 1, Lab 2

Welcome to COBOL

VSCode and Extensions

Basic COBOL Syntax

COBOL Divisions

COBOL Variables

Week 1 graded quiz

COBOL Structure and Cross-Program Communication

Data Division

File Handling

Procedure Division

Program Structure

What are paragraphs and how do we use them?

How do we call another program?

File Output and Reports

Week 2 lab guide. Do proceed to 3.

Additional information

Week 2, lab 4

Week 2, lab 5

Data Division

File Handling

Procedure Division

Program Structure

Paragraphs

Program Linkage

File Output and Reports

Week 2 graded quiz

Defining and Manipulating COBOL Data Names/Types

Conditional Expressions

Arithmetic Expressions

Data Types

Intrinsic Functions

Closing

Time for lab 6!

Additional information

Lab 7

Lab 8

Lab 9

Conditional Expressions

Arithmetic Expressions

Data Types

Intrinsic Functions

Week 3 graded quiz

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