Structured COBOL Programming - Robert A. Stern

Partial table of contents: THE BASICS. An Introduction to Structured Program Design in COBOL. COBOL Language Fundamentals: The Identification and Environment Divisions. DESIGNING STRUCTURED PROGRAMS. The Theory of Structured Program Design. Transferring Data: The Move Statement. Selection Using the If Statement. Iteration Using the Perform Statement. Printing Well-Designed Reports. WRITING HIGH-LEVEL COBOL PROGRAMS. Control Break Processing. Debugging Programs and Validating Data. TABLE HANDLING AND ARRAY PROCESSING. Single-Level Arrays and Tables. Multiple-Level Arrays and Tables. FILE MAINTENANCE. Sequential File Processing. Sorting and Merging. Indexed File Processing. ADVANCED TOPICS. Using Advanced Debugging Aids and Improving Program Performance. Relative File Processing. APPENDICES. COBOL Characters, Reserved Words, and Instruction Formats. Disk and Tape Concepts. Microsoft COBOL and R/M COBOL for the IBM PC. Coding Sheets and Printer Spacing Charts.Stern, Robert A. is the author of 'Structured COBOL Programming - Robert A. Stern' with ISBN 9780471632870 and ISBN 0471632872.