Subj : COBOL for Beginners
To : SMARTYHALL
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Thu Dec 05 2019 04:51 pm
>I'm looking for a good place to start learning COBOL. I have experience with a
>ariety of older languages, but there isn't anything in particular that I have t
>ue fluency with other than BASIC. I've never been fond of OOP, but that could j
>st be the autism prefering Structured and Procedural paradigms. I've tried to l
>arn COBOL from the language spec, which worked OK for getting me to a point tha
> I can read and understand programs, but I really would like to find a resource
>for learning to write them, even if it's for an older version of the language.
COBOL is actually the one language I am somewhat fluent in. Unfortunately,
I am not sure where you find a place to learn it these days. I guess you
can do what you might do for anything else like that -- buy a book, find
some old class materials (like books), or maybe find a learning resource on
the internet.
A quick google search just pulled up a tutorial at tutorialspoint.com and a
somewhat expensive book on murach.com. A search for "COBOL programming" on
amazon.com turns up several books (some expensive some not so much) on the
topic of learning the language.
I use it mostly at my job, but have also used to to write a few utilities
for my DOS BBS, mostly for processing log files (plain text) and a few
other things.
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