Structured COBOL : a problem solving approach /
Gerard A. Paquette
- Massachusetts : PWS Publishers, c1984
- xix, 600 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. A first look at a COBOL program -- Chapter 3. The divisions of a COBOL program: identification, environment, data -- Chapter 4. The divisions of a COBOL program: Procedure division -- Chapter 5. The arithmetic operations -- Chapter 6. Reports: accumulators and control breaks -- Chapter 7. Conditional statements -- Chapter 8. Lists and tables -- Chapter 9. Files -- Chapter 10. Sort and merge.
This text is written as a first-semester text for beginning Structured COBOL programming students. Its approach is simple, straightforward, and based on many years of teaching experience.