Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 24 Hours

Table of contents

1. Title Page
2. Copyright Page
3. Contents at a Glance
4. Contents
5. Part I COBOL Program Basics
   1. Hour 1 Getting Started
   2. Hour 2 Writing Your First Program in COBOL
   3. Hour 3 Different Data Types
   4. Hour 4 Basic User Interface
   5. Hour 5 Procedure Division
   6. Hour 6 Manipulating Data
   7. Hour 7 Manipulating String Data
   8. Hour 8 Conditional Statements
   9. Hour 9 The Evaluate Statement
   10. Hour 10 Processing Loops
   11. Hour 11 Advanced Perform Statements
   12. Hour 12 Tables
6. Part II File Handling
   1. Hour 13 Sequential Files
   2. Hour 14 Indexed Files
   3. Hour 15 Reading Indexed File Records
   4. Hour 16 Updating Indexed File Records
   5. Hour 17 Sorting
7. Part III Business Processing
   1. Hour 18 Master File Updating
   2. Hour 19 Reporting
   3. Hour 20 Advanced Reporting
8. Part IV Miscellaneous Functions
   1. Hour 21 Date Manipulation
   2. Hour 22 Other Intrinsic Functions
9. Part V Advanced Topics
   1. Hour 23 The Call Interface
   2. Hour 24 The Graphical User Interface
10. Appendix A Quiz and Exercise Questions and Answers
11. Inside Back Cover
12. Index
13. Where are the Companion Content Files?