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COBOL Tutorial - Learn COBOL in One Video

Derek Banas via YouTube

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Provider

YouTube
Pricing

Free Video
Languages

English
Effort

2 hours 14 minutes
Sessions

Self-Paced
Level

Beginner

Found in

COBOL Courses

This tutorial introduces COBOL programming from program structure and data definitions through control flow, subroutines, file processing, indexed records, tables, reports, and compilation. It also covers installing COBOL on Windows and macOS.

Syllabus

- Intro.
- Why is it Important.
- File Format.
- Main Divisions.
- Identification Division.
- Environment Division.
- Data Division.
- Variables / Picture / Data.
- Group Item / Hierarchal.
- Constants.
- Figurative Constants.
- Comment.
- Procedure Division.
- Print to Screen.
- Accept Input.
- Stop Run.
- Compile / Run.
- Assign Values.
- Math / Compute.
- Variables / Datatypes.
- Group Item.
- Figurative Constants.
- Math Functions.
- Compute.
- Data Classification.
- Thru / Ranges.
- Boolean.
- Multiple Values.
- If / Else.
- Logical / Conditional Operators.
- Classification.
- Built In Classification.
- Toggle Values.
- Evaluate.
- Paragraphs.
- Subroutines / Linkage.
- Call.
- While.
- For / Varying.
- Edited Pictures.
- Decimal Arithmetic.
- String Functions.
- Join Strings.
- Split String.
- Define Write to File.
- Open File.
- Write to File.
- Append to File.
- Read File.
- Create Reports.
- Filler.
- Indexed Files.
- Access Data Randomly.
- Save Record.
- Delete Record.
- Update Record.
- Get Record.
- Tables.
- Multidimensional Tables.
- Index Tables.
- Search Tables.
- Prefill Tables.
- Redefine.
- String to Float.
- Sort Records.
- Merge Files.
- Install Windows.
- Install MacOS.