Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 24 Hours teaches the basics of COBOL programming in 24 step-by-step lessons. Each lesson builds on the previous one providing a solid foundation in COBOL programming concepts and techniques. Coupled with the source code and the compiler available from Fujitsu, this hands-on guide is the easiest, fastest way to begin creating standard COBOL compliant code. Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 24 Hours utilizes the most modern client/server and Internet programming techniques available to COBOL programmers today! Readers build examples based on real-world scenarios not trivial or fictitious ones like our competitors. Business professionals and programmers from other languages will find this hands-on, task-oriented tutorial extremely useful for learning the essential features and concepts of COBOL programming. This book will familiarize business managers with COBOL thus enabling them to more effectively communicate with their IT staff about technical programming issues. Writing a program can be a complex task. By concentrating on one development tool (Fujitsu COBOL) we can guide the reader and get good results every time. There will be no programs that will not compile!
About the Author
Thane Hubbell has been a COBOL programmer for 15 years. Thane possesses a working knowledge on a variety of systems, from mainframes to minis to PCs. He has designed and developed full scale systems from the initial concept or idea to the deployed product. Through his role as a flight instructor, Thane has come to understand how people learn and think in high pressure situations – like in a programming environment . Initially a self taught programmer, with later education from IBM, Thane knows what it takes to learn a programming language on your own and how to teach one.
