Publisher's Synopsis
This book teaches students to design programs that are easy to read, debug, modify and maintain, and to write well-designed, elementary to advanced structural COBOL programs in their entirety. "Structured COBOL Programming" will also familiarize students with programming tools such as pseudocode and hierarchy charts that make program logic more structured, modular and top- down. The examples, illustrations, self-tests and reviews, as well as the practice programs and programming assignments are now more business-oriented. COBOL 85 has been fully integrated into the text, including new ANSI-approved features. Systems analysis and database design concepts such as data validation, error control procedures, file and report design, and screen layout are described in detail.
