Partial table of contents: THE BASICS. An Introduction to Structured Program Design in COBOL. The Data Division. DESIGNING STRUCTURED PROGRAMS. Designing and Debugging Batch and Interactive COBOL Programs. Decision Making Using the IF and EVALUATE Statements. Iteration: Beyond the Basic PERFORM. WRITING HIGH-LEVEL COBOL PROGRAMS.

Control Break Processing. Data Validation. Array Processing and Table Handling. FILE MAINTENANCE. Sequential File Processing. Sorting and Merging. Indexed and Relative File Processing. ADVANCED TOPICS.

The Report Writer Module. An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming. Appendices. Index.