Partial table of contents: THE BASICS. COBOL Language Fundamentals: The IDENTIFICATION and ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. The DATA DIVISION: FILE SECTION and WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. Coding Complete COBOL Programs: A Closer Look at the PROCEDURE DIVISION and the PERFORM Statement. DESIGNING STRUCTURED PROGRAMS. Designing and Debugging COBOL Programs. Moving Data and Printing Information. Computing in COBOL: The Arithmetic Verbs.

Decision-Making Using the IF and EVALUATE Statements. Iteration: Beyond the Basic PERFORM. WRITING HIGH-LEVEL COBOL PROGRAMS. Control Break Processing. ARRAY PROCESSING AND TABLE HANDLING. Multiple-Level Arrays and Tables. FILE MAINTENANCE. Sorting and Merging.

Interactive Processing. ADVANCED TOPICS. The COPY and CALL Statements. The Report Writer Module. Appendices.