Structured COBOL Programming Shelly Cashman Foreman 1995 1st Ed Computer Book

Structured COBOL Programming
by Gary B. Shelly, Thomas J. Cashman & Roy O. Foreman

First edition of this classic COBOL programming textbook from the popular Shelly Cashman Series, published by Course Technology in 1995.

The book teaches structured COBOL programming using a modular, top-down approach and covers the COBOL 85 standard with 1989 extensions. It was designed for college-level instruction but remains useful as a reference for programmers working with legacy COBOL systems. Google Books

Topics include

• Introduction to COBOL
• Program development
• ENVIRONMENT and DATA divisions
• IF and MOVE statements
• Data validation
• Arithmetic reports
• SORT processing
• Tables and table processing
• Sequential file maintenance
• Indexed and relative files
• Report Writer
• COBOL syntax and programming structure

Book Details

• Authors: Gary B. Shelly, Thomas J. Cashman, Roy O. Foreman
• Title: Structured COBOL Programming
• Series: Shelly Cashman Series
• Publisher: Course Technology
• Year: 1995
• Edition: First Edition
• Format: Trade Paperback
• Pages: 544
• ISBN-10: 0878354867
• ISBN-13: 9780878354863 All Bookstores

Ideal For

• COBOL programmers
• Mainframe programmers
• Legacy systems support
• Computer science students
• Retro computing collectors
• Programming reference libraries

COBOL remains important in banking, insurance, government, and other large legacy systems, so older instructional books like this still have practical value for programmers maintaining or learning structured COBOL.