Hey guys, I need some help for cobol tutorials. I can’t find a decent and orderly one or which I can understand properly. The only programming language I know as of now is C and Java. We just started our 2nd year first semester last monday and I need help because very few people knows Cobol nowadays and I haven’t found a book yet. Any links to videos or documents with Full Cobol tutorials is all I need. If you know a book that can help me, please give me the title and the author. Thanks in advance…
Do you understand this one? Without knowing the dialect you want to use I would suggest COBOL X/Open.
Also: GIYF (“COBOL programmer’s guide”)
Great links… I’ve started but I think I’m too “slow,” what you gave me is enough but a video can still help. Anyways, I’m still reading the pdf. Thanks again 
why the fuck are you learning COBOL
- Because it’s oldschool and Grace M. Hopper said so.
- Because it’s a Business oriented language and >50% of todays businesses still use COBOL in one way or another.
cool statistic
yeah, sure, some businesses use it but only because they have to.
why not learn something more modern and a bit more relevant
Yeah, and when these businesses don’t want to use it anymore, a C or Java Programmer with COBOL experience will be paid.
I would rather learn COBOL or SML than hope to get a job in the web-business or gaming-industry, because when it comes down to a financial crisis nobody will give a shit about comupter games or datin services…
Video game sales had one of the slowest reactions to the recession, and you’d be foolish to think that the internet will ever cease being important in the foreseeable future, even in times of economic hardship.
But, you’ve made up your mind, evidently. Good luck.
Well… COBOL will only be for this semester… and the link is providing real help. All I can say is that learning COBOL really isn’t that bad, I mean… It would still help me in my career in the future. I’ll learn other modern languages soon and that would settle the argument… right? right… So yeah, I’ll learn COBOL.
It is true that entertainment thrives in times of recession - the best example is US cinema in the 1920s.
I would rather work for a company producing goods with added-value though. Inflation usually shuts down entertainment industry pretty hard.
I’d rather do interesting things than write boring financial software for a living…