Basic COBOL Programming

The basic COBOL application programming class provides the student an opportunity to exercise a number of programming techniques using the COBOL programming language. COBOL has been widely used to develop commercial applications and is still in wide use in a number of large organizations today.

The class covers the following:

• Use of structured programming techniques to develop COBOL programs

• Design, coding, and testing of COBOL programs that

  • Move data in storage

  • Edit both input and output data

  • Use arithmetic operations (add, subtract, multiply, divide) on data

  • Use input/output operations

  • Involve the use of control break techniques

  • Involve the use of table processing techniques

  • Sort data using bubble sort and COBOL sorting

  • Perform internal subroutines (paragraphs)

  • Call external subroutines

• The following COBOL statements will be covered and used in the class

  • MOVE

  • ADD, SUBTRACT, MULTIPLY and DIVIDE

  • COMPUTE

  • IF... THEN....ELSE

  • PERFORM

  • PERFORM VARYING

  • CALL

  • SEARCH

A number of programming projects are assigned to give the student ample opportunity to design, code, and test structured COBOL programs that use multidimensional arrays, I/O, math operations, searches, and sorts.