Partial table of contents: THE BASICS. An Introduction to Structured Program Design in COBOL. The Identification and Environment Divisions. Coding Complete COBOL Programs: The Procedure Division. DESIGNING STRUCTURED PROGRAMS. Designing and Debugging Batch and Interactive COBOL Programs. Moving Data, Printing Information, and Displaying Output Interactively. Computing in COBOL: The Arithmetic Verbs and Intrinsic Functions.

WRITING HIGH-LEVEL COBOL PROGRAMS. Control Break Processing. Array Processing and Table Handling. FILE MAINTENANCE. Sequential File Processing. Sorting and Merging. ADVANCED TOPICS. The Report Writer Module.

Appendices. Index.