TY - GEN AU - M. B Khan TI - Beginning structured COBOL T2 - serie SN - 0-02-946436-6 PY - 1991/// CY - New York PB - Maxwell McMillan KW - Ingeniería en tecnologias de la información y comunicaciones N1 - Editorial Maxwell McMillan ISBN 0-02-946436-6; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO COBOL CHAPTER 2 STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING CHAPTER 3 STRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION OF COBOL CHAPTER 4 MORE ON STRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION: COBOL DIVISIONS CHAPTER S COBOL STATEMENTS CHAPTER 6 EDITING OUTPUT DATA CHAPTER 7 COMPUTING ARITHMETIC STATEMENTS CHAPTER S CONTROLLING PROGRAM EXECUTION CONDITION STATEMENTS CHAPTER 9 GENERATING A REPORT CHAPTER 10 MORE ON GENERATING A REPORT: SORTING AND CONTROL BREAK CHAPTER 11 SINGLE-LEVEL TABLES CHAPTER 12 MULTILEVEL TABLES CHAPTER 13 VALIDATING INPUT DATA CHAPTER 14 UPDATING SEQUENTIAL FILES CHAPTER 15 ADDITIONAL FEATURES OF COBOL; Ingeniería en Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación N2 - Computers are sophisticated electronic machines designed to solve problems. A computer solves a problem by performing (or executing) a sequence of instruc tions (or statements) referred to as a program. Not only must the program list every step necessary to solve the problem, but it also must be written in a lan-guage that the computer can understand." Such languages are known as pro. gramming languages. COBOL is one of these programming languages. In this text. you will learn the skills necessary to write computer programs using COBOL as the language. COBOL is an acronym for Common Business Oriented Language, the com-puter programming language most widely used for writing business programs. In this chapter, we will present some background information on computer programming in general and the development of the COBOL programming lan-guage in particular. We will also discuss the program development life cycle, which, if followed, makes software development efficient ER -