Murach's Structured COBOL - Softcover

Murach, Mike; Prince, Anne; Menendez, Raul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1890774057 ISBN 13: 9781890774059

Publisher: Mike Murach & Associates Inc, 2000

Synopsis

An introduction and reference to COBOL. Early chapters allow beginners to code, compile, test, and debug simple interactive programs right away. Later chapters give techniques for designing and coding structured programs, cover specifics needed for developing COBOL programs for IBM mainframes, and introduce object-oriented COBOL. All information is presented in paired pages, with details and examples on the right and perspectives on the left. Includes chapter summaries, key terms, and objectives, plus exercises. The CD-ROM contains source code and data for exercises. Author information is not given. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

About the Author

Raul Menendez, co-author of our new COBOL book, brings a wealth of programming experience to the job. For the last 10 years, he’s worked as a programmer, project manager, and systems consultant on COBOL/CICS/DB2 jobs in both IBM and Unix environments…jobs that range from designing and implementing new systems to enhancing and maintaining old ones.

Anne Prince began her career as a COBOL programmer in 1979, and has managed our inhouse system for the last 10 years. So you can be sure this COBOL book is packed with real-world experience! Anne’s skills extend far beyond basic COBOL programming, though. She’s the co-author of our books on DB2 , Visual Basic, and Access programming . And as our top technical editor, she’s insured the accuracy of most of best-selling mainframe books, including those on MVS JCL and CICS.

When Mike Murach wrote his first computer book, on COBOL, way back when, he spent a lot of time analyzing what made an effective book and came up with a way of handling technical material that still works well today: Carefully choose the content based on what a programmer needs to know; arrange the material so the reader learns how to write a complete program in the first few chapters to ward off boredom and discouragement; load the book with sensible examples that mirror what the programmer will be doing on the job; and make the writing easy to read and understand. In recent years, he’s pushed on as a writer to develop a system of presentation that we call “paired pages” as the best means for presenting our technical information. And as a publisher, he’s always made sure that every book we offer lives up to these standards of quality.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mike Murach & Associates Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1890774057
• ISBN 13: 9781890774059
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 780