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COBOL for the 21st Century
| Title | COBOL for the 21st Century |
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| Date | 2025-07-10 18:47:20 |
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Desciption
COBOL . . . Still standing tall. Just like the evergreen, the COBOL programming language has remained vibrant and full of life year after year. Today, COBOL is running a large number of the world's business data applications, and it's likely to remain a viable language in the years ahead. Now in its 11th Edition, Nancy Stern, Robert Stern, and James Ley's COBOL for the 21st Century continues to show how to design COBOL programs that are easy to read, debug, modify, and maintain. You'll learn to write interactive programs as well as batch programs with sophisticated file processing techniques, and become familiar with valuable information processing and systems concepts. Features * Updated to reflect COBOL 2008, where appropriate. * A chapter on the Report Writer Module. * More end-of-chapter questions. * A running case study builds on what you have learned in each chapter. * Integrated coverage of interactive programming. * Covers information processing and systems concepts that will help you interact with users and systems analysts when designing programs. * Introduces programming tools such as pseudocode and hierarchy charts that make program logic more structured, modular, and top-down. * Presents useful techniques for maintaining and modifying older "legacy" programs. * Effective learning tools, including chapter outlines and objectives, debugging tips and exercises, critical-thinking questions, and programming assignments. * Links to COBOL Internet resources. * Companion Website (www.wiley.com/college/stern), featuring a syntax reference guide, data sets for all programming assignments, and all programs illustrated in the book. Read more
Review
Found myself in a job where I needed a very good COBOL reference book and wishing I had kept my old Stern and Stern COBOL book from my college days that served me well for many years. There is no better COBOL reference book than a Stern & Stern. I'm using the info in the book as needed to help me read COBOL code in an application system that is being converted into current technology. In addition I have written COBOL data migration programs and used the book to help me solve programming issues. I don't have to spend time searching the internet for specific pieces of information, it is all right in the book, just flip to the index. The content in the good is detailed, explained well, easy to read with good coding examples. Yes the book's coverage of COBOL is into the 21st century. I am very happy with the book. The book's condition was better than advertised, arrived safely packaged and in a timely manner. Happy customer.
