COBOL From Pascal [Paperback]

This book is concerned with language skills and language understanding rather than programming methodology. No mention is made of testing, and no attention given to the environment in which programs must be entered, or executed. It is assumed that a reader will be familiar with these matters.Part I Introduction to COBOL: language fundamentals; assignment statements; arithmetic operations. Part 2 Program Structures: procedural abstraction; control structures 1 - selection; 2 - iteration. Part 3 Data Structures: multi-level records; sequential files; data editing and report writing; repeated data items; indexed files; relative files. Part 4 Modular structures: separately compiled subprograms; nested subprograms. Appendices: COBOL reserved words; main statement rules.