Structured COBOL : programming and problem solving /
J. Patrick Fenton and Brian K. Williams
- St. Louis, Missouri : Times Mirror/Mosby College Publishing, c1988
- xxiv, 716 pages ; 29 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1. How to read and write COBOL: overview and crash course -- Chapter 2. Programming as a problem-solving process -- Chapter 3. Preparing for output and input: report and data specifications -- Chapter 4. COBOL's data division -- Chapter 5. The logic of a program -- Chapter 6. Arithmetic statements in COBOL -- Chapter 7. Conditional statements -- Chapter 8. Data validation -- Chapter 9. Single and multilevel control breaks in reporting programs -- Chapter 10. Table-handling concepts -- Chapter 11. Advanced table-handling concepts -- Chapter 12. Sequential file processing -- Chapter 13. Sorting -- Chapter 14. Report writing.
This book is written for students in a one or two-semester introductory course in COBOL proramming.