Introduction Computer Programming Structured COBOL Shelly Cashman 1977 Vintage

Introduction to Computer Programming: Structured COBOL
by Gary B. Shelly & Thomas J. Cashman

Vintage introductory COBOL programming textbook published by Anaheim Publishing Company in 1977.

Designed for students learning business-oriented computer programming, the book introduces COBOL using structured-programming methods and walks the reader through program planning, coding, data handling, and file processing.

Book Details

• Authors: Gary B. Shelly and Thomas J. Cashman
• Title: Introduction to Computer Programming: Structured COBOL
• Publisher: Anaheim Publishing Company
• Year: 1977
• Format: Paperback
• Approximately 562 pages
• Includes index
• ISBN-10: 0882361112
• ISBN-13: 9780882361116 Open Library

Topics include

• Introduction to COBOL
• Structured program design
• Data Division and Procedure Division
• Input/output processing
• Arithmetic operations
• Conditional statements
• Program logic
• Business data processing
• File handling
• Debugging and documentation
• Flowcharts and structured programming techniques

Published during the height of COBOL’s use in business and institutional computing, this book also makes an interesting piece of 1970s computer-education history.

Ideal For

• COBOL programmers
• Mainframe and legacy-system specialists
• Vintage computing collectors
• Programming-history collections
• Computer science libraries
• Shelly/Cashman textbook collectors