Subj : COBOL for Beginners
To   : Dumas Walker
From : smartyhall
Date : Sat Dec 07 2019 04:07 am

  Re: COBOL for Beginners
  By: Dumas Walker to SMARTYHALL on Thu Dec 05 2019 04:51 pm

 > COBOL is actually the one language I am somewhat fluent in.  Unfortunately,
 > I am not sure where you find a place to learn it these days.  I guess you
 > can do what you might do for anything else like that -- buy a book, find
 > some old class materials (like books), or maybe find a learning resource on
 > the internet.
 >
 > A quick google search just pulled up a tutorial at tutorialspoint.com and a
 > somewhat expensive book on murach.com.  A search for "COBOL programming" on
 > amazon.com turns up several books (some expensive some not so much) on the
 > topic of learning the language.
 >
 > I use it mostly at my job, but have also used to to write a few utilities
 > for my DOS BBS, mostly for processing log files (plain text) and a few
 > other things.
 >
I believe I've actually tried that tutorial before. Self-directed learning resources are always so hit and miss for me. Over the years, I've taught myself some crazy things just from reeding manuals, but for some subjects, I just end up needing some extra hand-holding.
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