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Structured Cobol : a direct approach / Rina Yarmish, Gerald Wohl.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1993.Description: xv, 686 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 0138553629
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 005.133 20 YAR
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Contents
1. Meet the Computer
1.1 What is a Computer
1.2 A Computer System
1.3 Computer System Vary in size
1.4 Data organization: Field, Record, File, Data Base
1.5 Communicating with the Computer
etc

2. A preliminary Subset of ANS COBOL
2.1 Learning and Doing
2.2 The First Layer: Reading and writing
2.3 The Second Layer: Reading and Writing
2.4 The Third Layer: Reading and writing
2.5 The fourth Layer: Reading and writing

3. Expanding the Subset: Constants; Moving; Editing; Report Enhancement
3.1 COBOL Constants
3.2 The Movie Statement
3.3 Editing
3.4 Some Enhancements for well-designed report Output
3.5 A program Example
etc

4. Expanding the Subset: Arithmetic statements and the if Statements
4.1 Arithmetic Statements
4.2 The IF Statement
4.3 Case Structure: The Evaluate verb
4.4 A Program Example
etc

5. Control Break processing
5.1 Types of Reports
5.2 Control Breaks; Subtotal and Final Totals
5.3 Control Breaks: Subtotals within Sub totals
5.4 Variation in and Enhancement of Control Break Report
5.5 A comprehensive Program Example: Control-Breaks-C
etc

6. Debugging.
6.1 The Best Debugging Medicine is Prevention
6.2 Program errors
6.3 Errors Resulting from Invalid Input Data

7. Table Processing
7.1 What are Tables?
7.2 Table Definition
7.3 Loading Tables into Storage
7.4 Table Searching
7.5 Multilevel Tables

8. Direct and Sequential Access
8.1 Direct Access Concepts
8.2 Magnetic Tape Concepts

9. COBOL for Sequential File
9.1 A System overview
9.2 An inventory System

10. COBOL for Indexed Files
10.1 Characteristics of Indexed Files
10.2 Processing Indexed Files

etc
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Includes index.

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