Professor Tak Auyeung of American River College, said it beautifully, “A programming language is not a fashion statement” it is used for a purpose. Whether it is to add new features, modify logic, create APIs to integrate it into other applications, or implement modern development practices, businesses around the world need application developers who know COBOL.

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This introductory COBOL course helps a novice learn the Structure of COBOL programs, Data types & Variable Handling, Intrinsic Functions, Branching logic and more. The goal of the course is to enable the participant to be able to write basic COBOL programs. This is a fantastic compliment to the IBM z/OS Practitioner path for the IBM Mainframe.

On successful completion of this course, learners are eligible to earn their COBOL Programming with VSCode badge.

What You Will Learn

- Summarize the key features of COBOL program

- Recognize the hardware (IBM Z) and software (z/OS) layers that go hand in hand with Enterprise COBOL

- Demonstrate an understanding of basic programming fundamentals

- Demonstrate an understanding of the modern tooling interface (VSCode w/ ZOWE & Z Open Editor)