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COBOL for the 21st Century, 10th Edition | 
 enlarge | Authors: Nancy Stern, Robert A. Stern, James P. Ley
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
List Price: $120.70
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 208000
Media: Paperback
Edition: 10
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 832
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.1
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 7.8 x 1.4
ISBN: 0471073210
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9780471073215
ASIN: 0471073210
Publication Date: September 26, 2002
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Product Description
A hardy perennial!
Despite years of dire predictions, COBOL is still thriving. In fact, it's practically a perennial. New version of COBOL for PCs now enable you to use COBOL to develop interesting graphical user interfaces, create Web pages, and even incorporate components from other languages such as Visual Basic.
Now with COBOL FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, 10/E, you can take advantage of these exciting new developments and learn how to become a master COBOL programmer.
Features:
* Includes new integrated coverage of interactive programming.
* Shows how to design programs that area easy to read, debug, modify, and maintain.
* Covers information processing and systems concepts that will help you interact with users and systems analysts when designing programs.
* Introduces you to programming tools such as pseudocode and hierarchy charts that make program logic more structured, modular, and top-down.
* Presents useful techniques for maintaining and modifying older "legacy" programs.
* Includes a student CD containing all data for all programming assignments as well as the full Practice Program from each chapter.
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This book is not for programmers who want to study COBOL after working with object-oriented languages. January 7, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I get this book at work like main manual for all our mainframe COBOL programmers. All the mainframe COBOL people in our shop are old-timers with more then 15 years experience. This book for them is like a bible. I'm object-oriented programmer working with G4 languages almost 14 years. This book for me was like 15 years ago. So I bought for my self new-days COBOL books and was able to study this language. I keep this COBOL book on my desk in case I have to communicate with current mainframe programmers. It helps me to understand what they want and explain to them various programming situations.
Well designed book March 2, 2006
COBOL, indeed it is still very widely used today and it is here to stay for a good while, especially with COBOL 2008 coming up.
If you have no knowledge in COBOL whatsoever, this book will be your starting point.
The thing I like about this book is how they give the many variations of how you can use a certain piece of code, like the many variations of using the EVALUATE statement.
The authors is not boring. He's straight to the point and tells you on many occasions what types of mistakes to avoid because we all know how long COBOL programs can be to debug.
There is always a different example in each chapter and as the author is adding to the example, the full program is given with sample outputs and the code is available from the CD for you to also test.
On top of that, it has colors and gridlines when needed so COBOL code is quite readable.
 got what I ordered September 30, 2005
1 out of 13 found this review helpful
I got what I ordered on time a the specified price.
 One of the worst programming books for beginners! February 12, 2005
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
As the reader below me already said, this book is simply too technical. It assumes you know something about this language. Clearly not for beginners. As you can notice, most of the people who gave this book a positive rating are either professors or experienced programmers. None of them was a beginner when they bought the book.
Anyway, I had to pick this book up for one of my college classes. The first source code example is 21 lines long (no comments). I repeat: 21 LINES. A first-program length not normally found on introductory books. And I have read a lot of introductory programming books (C++, Visual Basic, C, etc). Most of them start with the classic "Hello World" program or something similar. But that's not the case in this book.
Over the next three pages the book tries to explain that first example, but, in my opinion, fails miserably. Lots of symbols are left unexplained; lines are mentioned, but their purpose is left a mystery.
The second sample program in chapter one is a 48 lines one. This one is only 6 pages away from the 21-liner. O_o
Then comes the inadequate explanation... followed by the end of chapter programming assignments.
So I wanted to practice a little bit. Hoping to find some other sample programs to clear my confusion, I pop the included CD in my DVD-RW drive, go to My Computer and double click on the CD icon. Well to make a long story short the CD includes only code programs from Chapter 4 and up (This book has 17 chapters). Thus skipping all the introductory chapters. Oh well....
It's good that I have a good professor, because the book is useless.
So my advice is: Do not buy this book if you know nothing about COBOL.
 Absolutely Horrendous Book April 27, 2004
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
I use this book at my University or rather, it is the book used for the course, but we never once use it. Why might you ask? Because unlike all reviews before that said this book was great, this book is written so technically and to understand it, you have to already know something about Cobol. If you need help with a program and want to look it up in the book hoping it will help you, forget it. There is no way this book is of any help and it is so hard to understand. You are better off buying some other book instead of this one. Trust me.
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