Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 21 Days (3rd Edition) [Paperback]

Mo Budlong (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 22, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0672317885 | ISBN-13: 978-0672317880 | Edition: 3

Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 21 Days, Third Edition, will quickly empower you to create powerful, Y2K-complient COBOL applications. Using client-proven methods, and over 20 years of COBOL programming experience, expert author Mo Budlong provides you with an understanding of the COBOL language and programming methods. Readers who have been confused by the high-end, academic style of other COBOL books and classes have had this to say about previous editions of Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 21 Days: "A very good book. Much easier to understand than the course I took." "The 21 Days book will get you up to speed much quicker (than college classes.)" "I use Teach Yourself COBOL in 21 Days at my Learning Center for teaching COBOL programming."

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Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 21 Days, Third Edition, will quickly empower you to create powerful, Y2K-complient COBOL applications. Using client-proven methods, and over 20 years of COBOL programming experience, expert author Mo Budlong provides you with an understanding of the COBOL language and programming methods. Readers who have been confused by the high-end, academic style of other COBOL books and classes have had this to say about previous editions of Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 21 Days: "A very good book. Much easier to understand than the course I took." "The 21 Days book will get you up to speed much quicker (than college classes.)" "I use Teach Yourself COBOL in 21 Days at my Learning Center for teaching COBOL programming."

About the Author

Mo Budlong has been a programmer and hardware engineer for over 25 years. He has written extensively on COBOL and is the author of COBOL Dates and the Year 2000, Moving from COBOL to C, and COBOL Cookbook Volumes 1, 2 and 3. Mo also writes the Unix101 column for SunWorld Online, and has written several successful commercial applications.

Product Details

• Paperback: 700 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 3 edition (October 22, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672317885
• ISBN-13: 978-0672317880
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,060,034 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW... COBOL for the 21st century, June 17, 2002

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James Kilthau (Castaic, ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 21 Days (3rd Edition) (Paperback)

I was pleasantly surprised to find that COBOL in 21 Days covered such a wide range of functions. Although I've used COBOL for years, I had not been exposed to using it for object-oriented programming or generating HTML. It's nice to see these features, but... the true power of this course lies in it's "real world" examples that systematically build into a strong foundation of COBOL knowledge. The authors ability to present code examples with clear explanations and chapter reviews enables the reader to quickly absorb the material. I was also pleased to see that the course "really" could be completed within 21 days.

This book has become required reading for new programmers at my clients site. It has also become a point of reference for the more senior programmers. If you don't already have a COBOL compiler, don't fret as the Acucobol system on the CD is all that you'll need (including runtime, debugger, utilities, etc.)

I give this book my highest recommendation for anybody wishing to become a competent COBOL programmer

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW!! COBOL for the 21st century, June 13, 2002

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Jim Kilthau (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 21 Days (3rd Edition) (Paperback)

I've worked with COBOL (on many platforms) over the years and am delighted to see that Mr. Budlong's course covers many new features and technologies (HTML, GUI, OOPs etc.) that I haven't been able to do in COBOL before.

More importantly, this course provides a fast-track to "COBOL competence" that is comfortably-paced and can certainly be completed within the 21-day timeframe. The code samples that drive the course provide ALL of the COBOL fundamentals necessary to begin mastery this language. Another benefit is that the samples are VERY WELL written and will help the beginner to get off to a good start by writing in clear and elegant style.

COBOL in 21 Days is an important reference in my clients library and is "required reading" for all new programmers. I give this book my highest recommendation and would urge anyone wishing to become a solid COBOL Programmer to make this his/her starting point.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good book for the language, May 18, 2000

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This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 21 Days (3rd Edition) (Paperback)

this is a good book to start learning cobol with he starts with the basics and moves on to the more advanced topics. However it really only teaches the language itself and not the best ways to structure programs etc. Experience in programing is what is really needed.