Advanced COBOL for Structured and Object-Oriented Programming, 3rdEdition [Paperback]

Gary DeWard Brown (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471314811 | ISBN-13: 978-0471314813 | Publication Date: November 23, 1998 | Edition: 3

The classic guide to programming in COBOL-updated, expanded, and even more user-friendly than before

Advanced Cobol, Third Edition

For many years, Gary Brown's classic guide to advanced COBOL has been the on-the-job reference of choice for experienced COBOL programmers internationally. Without compromising on any of the outstanding features that made it so successful, this Third Edition has been updated and expanded to reflect all the important new trends and applications in COBOL programming. Packed with dozens of concise examples illustrating language features, and featuring several complete programs, this indispensable working resource arms you with practical coverage of:
* All essential COBOL terms, concepts, and statements
* COBOL programming solutions to the Y2K problem
* Full Screen terminal support, subprograms and functions, and COBOL Report Writer
* Items in proposed new ANSI Standard
* Object-oriented COBOL
* Obsolete statements and how to work around them
* COBOL for client/server and distributed computing
* Cross-system development
* Application programming interfaces

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The Y2K drama will continue to grow until we ring in the new year. The problem is real; it will affect people with older PCs, and it will affect large mainframe systems that have been cobbled together from a multitude of old programming languages that few people use and understand today. Much of the retrofitting that is going on will actually introduce new bugs into the systems because the people doing the refixes didn't write the original code. These three books will be invaluable for businesspeople and consultants to larger companies dealing with major Y2K concerns. Individuals should check out The Year 2000 Personal Computer Fix-It Guide (LJ 1/99) and Y2K: The Clock Is Ticking! (Video Reviews, LJ 1/99).
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The classic guide to programming in COBOL-updated, expanded, and even more user-friendly than before

Advanced Cobol, Third Edition

For many years, Gary Brown's classic guide to advanced COBOL has been the on-the-job reference of choice for experienced COBOL programmers internationally. Without compromising on any of the outstanding features that made it so successful, this Third Edition has been updated and expanded to reflect all the important new trends and applications in COBOL programming. Packed with dozens of concise examples illustrating language features, and featuring several complete programs, this indispensable working resource arms you with practical coverage of:
* All essential COBOL terms, concepts, and statements
* COBOL programming solutions to the Y2K problem
* Full Screen terminal support, subprograms and functions, and COBOL Report Writer
* Items in proposed new ANSI Standard
* Object-oriented COBOL
* Obsolete statements and how to work around them
* COBOL for client/server and distributed computing
* Cross-system development
* Application programming interfaces

Wiley Computer Publishing.

Timely. Practical. Reliable.

Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/

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Product Details

• Paperback: 640 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 3 edition (November 23, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471314811
• ISBN-13: 978-0471314813
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,065,175 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still Current., January 30, 2002

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W. J. Vovil "Wayne" (Sydney, NSW, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Advanced COBOL for Structured and Object-Oriented Programming, 3rdEdition (Paperback)

I have been a programmer since April 1969. Even though I have programmed in most popular languages (c / c++ / smalltalk, java , algol, python, PL/1, many different assemblers etc), COBOL is still the MOST used language in the corporate world. As IBM says, "80% of the world's data is still on mainframes, 80% of the world's programs are still written in COBOL. I am contracting to a large corporation now, and they are having to retrain their young java programmers in how to write (NEW not legacy) COBOL applications!

With that background, I now get to the point (finally)! Buy this book. It is excellent. Also buy COBOL Unleashed; it too is invaluable.

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Worth the time to read & the money, May 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Advanced COBOL for Structured and Object-Oriented Programming, 3rdEdition (Paperback)

Very well put together, clear, concise. Not a beginners book by any stretch (assuming there are still people learning COBOL) ? But, its a great reference book and like the last review, it helps you remember all the stuff you'd forgotten over the years doing COBOL. Intermediate to Advanced level....

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Useful quick-reference., March 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Advanced COBOL for Structured and Object-Oriented Programming, 3rdEdition (Paperback)

1) Positive aspects. Complete (as far as I can judge, because I never read it from cover to cover), detailed and nevertheless concise enough to be my daily quick-reference. The book covers mainframe as well as pc-Cobol. 2) Neutral aspect. Not recommendable as a course book and not recommendable for beginners, I would say. But quite well fit to rehearse parts of Cobol knowledge that slipped away from my memory. So the title of the book is quite appropriate. 3) Negative aspect. Only one way of spacing for subscripts is presented, without further comment. But it is the pc-Cobol way of spacing, it doesn't work that way under MVS. Which is a very slight shortcoming however, to my opinion.