Introduction to COBOL 2000: Supplementary Material

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Notes on Using Fujitsu COBOL

The Quick Guide to COBOL

The divisions of a COBOL program. Always in this order.
  1. The Identification division
  2. The Environment division
  3. The Data Division
  4. The Procedure Division

Lecture Summaries

Since I expect to make use of the slides provided with the text, what you have here is simply a list of the topics that will be covered in each lecture.

Thursday January 20thAn Overview of the course
Grauer Chapter 1
Monday January 27th Using Fujitsu COBOL
Thursday January 27thHow to write a program
Grauer Chapter 2
Monday January 31st Lab for Assignment 2
Thursday February 3rdProgram Design
Grauer Chapter 3
Monday February 7th Lab for Assignment 2
Thursday February 10thA systematic review of COBOL
Grauer Chapter 4
Monday February 14th Lab for Assignment 2
Thursday February 17th The Procedure Division I
Grauer Chapter 5
Monday February 21st Lab for Assignment 3
Thursday February 24th Formatting Output
Grauer Chapter 7
Monday February 28th Lab for Assignment 3
Thursday March 2nd Debugging
Grauer Chapter 6
Spring Break
SpringBreakMonday March 13th Lab for Assignment 4
Thursday March 16 Data Validation
Grauer Chapter 8
Monday March 20th Lab for Assignment 4
Thursday March 23rdRepetition
Grauer Chapter 9
Monday March 27th Lab for Assignment 5
Thursday March 30th Review of COBOL
Catch UP!
Monday April 3rd Lab for Assignment 5
Thursday April 6th Screen Entry
Grauer Chapter 10
Monday April 10th Lab for Assignment 6
Thursday April 13th Sorting
Grauer Chapter 14
Monday April 17th Lab for Assignment 6
Thursday April 20th What's all this about Objects?
Grauer Chapter 20
Easter Break
Thursday April 27th Review Monday May 1 Lab for Assignment 7

Dr. J.P.E. Hodgson
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Saint Joseph's University
5600 City Avenue
Philadephia. PA 19131
Tel: (1)- 610 -660-1571

Last Changed: 2000-01-24