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COBOL Essential Training

With Peggy Fisher Liked by 7,005 users
Duration: 3h 48m Skill level: Intermediate Released: 10/22/2020

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Course details

Since its inception over 60 years ago, COBOL code has worked its way into everything from ATM machines to essential government operations. While most modern developers aren't spinning up new programs using this legacy programming language, organizations are often willing to pay a premium for candidates who can review and update existing COBOL code. This course was designed to help new and experienced programmers alike add COBOL (or add COBOL back) to their skill set. Instructor Peggy Fisher shows how to get a COBOL development environment up and running and how to start programming. She reviews the language's data types and constants, control structures, file organization and processing methods, tables, and strings. Challenges issued along the way will help you practice what you've learned.

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  • Calvin C. Calvin C.

    Calvin C.

    IT Specialist at PT Bank Central Asia Tbk

    4/5 February 22, 2025
    Very good and easy to understand material. Pretty good for newbies and newcomers for COBOL
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    Lois Adams

    COBOL Developer/Mainframe Quality Assurance Specialist

    5/5 February 1, 2025
    Instructor very though.
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    Gregory Brooks

    Electrical Automation Instructor Energy Systems Tech and Ed at Idaho State University

    5/5 September 30, 2024
    I have setup GnuCOBOL on OSX and manually on Windows using Mingw. The way WSL is utilized here and VSCODE is awesome. Really like this course
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Contents

What’s included

  • Practice while you learn 1 exercise file
  • Test your knowledge 9 quizzes
  • Learn on the go Access on tablet and phone

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