Beginning structured COBOL /

Carver, D. K.

Beginning structured COBOL / Keith Carver - Second Edition - California : Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, c1985 - xv, 461 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. Computers and problem solving -- Chapter 2. Getting started in COBOL -- Chapter 3. Setting up the program -- Chapter 4. Handling data (Part 1) -- Chapter 5. Conditional operations in COBOL -- Chapter 6. Handling data (Part III) -- Chapter 7. Control breaks and programmed switches -- Chapter 8. Working with tables of data -- Chapter 9. More about tables -- Chapter 10. Sorting -- Chapter 11. Working with sequential files -- Chapter 12. Working with indexed files -- Chapter 13. Writing reports.

The text is designed to avoid one of the more common difficulties of COBOL texts - that of not getting students into programming quickly.

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COBOL (COMPUTER PROGRAM LANGUAGE)

QA 76.73 .C37 1985