Author
Peggy Fisher
Released
12/8/2015This course is designed to help new and experienced programmers alike add COBOL (or add COBOL back) to their skill set. Peggy Fisher shows how to get a COBOL development environment up and running and how to start programming. She reviews COBOL's data types and constants, control structures, file storage and processing methods, tables, and strings. Challenges issued along the way will help you practice what you've learned.
- Downloading and installing Cygwin and GNU COBOL
- Editing, compiling, linking, and running COBOL programs
- Describing data in COBOL
- Working with verbs and expressions
- Using branching
- Reading and writing sequential files
- Updating and deleting records
- Working with relative and indexed files
- Creating and searching tables
- Handling strings
Skill Level Beginner
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- [Voiceover] Hello, and welcome to Up and Running With COBOL. My name is Peggy Fisher, and I'll be your author for this course. This series is designed to get you acquainted with the basics of COBOL, or, if you're like me, to shake out the cobwebs and get you back up and running with this powerful programming language. Along the way, you'll be challenged with writing programs that include all of the features we'll be discussing. I'm Peggy Fisher, and I'm here to get you Up and Running with COBOL.
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Introduction
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Welcome27s
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1. Getting Started
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Introduction to COBOL2m 12s
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Downloading GnuCOBOL1m 53s
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COBOL coding rules4m 45s
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Designing programs1m 52s
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2. Describing Data
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COBOL naming standards3m 24s
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3. Control Structures
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How to use COBOL verbs3m 50s
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Computational verbs6m 36s
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Decision making in COBOL4m 11s
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Branching in COBOL (go to)3m 48s
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Perform/Perform...thru3m 18s
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Perform n times4m 4s
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Perform...until2m 10s
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4. Sequential Files
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File error checking in COBOL4m 29s
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Processing files in COBOL2m 37s
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5. Advance Sequential Files
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Sorting records in COBOL4m 29s
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Merging records in COBOL3m 35s
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6. Direct Access Files
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Direct access files in COBOL3m 28s
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Relative files in COBOL4m 31s
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7. Tables in COBOL
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Using tables in COBOL4m 4s
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Creating tables in COBOL6m 9s
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Searching tables in COBOL3m 28s
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8. String Handling
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Inspecting strings in COBOL2m 39s
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Conclusion
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Next steps22s
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