Kick off your COBOL programming journey by writing your first COBOL program. This course covers the basics of COBOL syntax, the structure of a COBOL program, simple data definitions, and displaying output, preparing you for more advanced topics.
Overview
Syllabus
- Lesson 1: Hello World - Your First Program and its Structure. Simple Display Statement
- Change the Greeting Message
- Fix the COBOL Greeting Message
- Fix the COBOL Greeting
- Filling in the Blanks
- Complete the COBOL Program
- Lesson 2: COBOL Basics - Data Division and Simple Variables. More on Display
- Change the Support Agent's Name
- Fix the Display Bug
- Fix the Customer Name Bug
- Define and Display Bank Details
- Defining and Displaying COBOL Variables
- Lesson 3: Introduction to Numbers in COBOL
- Adjust Length of Numeric Variables
- Fix the Account Number Bug
- Fix the Account Number Declaration
- Adding Numeric Variables in COBOL
- Working with Numeric Variables in COBOL
- Lesson 4: Introduction to Simple Arithmetic Operations
- Change the Values, See the Result
- Fix Arithmetic Operations in COBOL
- Fix Arithmetic Operations in COBOL
- Arithmetic Operations in COBOL
- Write COBOL Arithmetic Operations
- Lesson 5: More Arithmetic Operations - Multiplication and Division. Remainder in Division
- Change Arithmetic Operations in COBOL
- Fix Arithmetic Operations in COBOL
- Fix the Division Error
- Complete the Arithmetic Operations
- Write COBOL Arithmetic Operations
- Lesson 6: Variable Naming Conventions - Best Practices
- Update Customer Information
- Fix the Variable Names
- Modify Customer Details
- Fill in Missing Customer Details