Re: [open-cobol-list] advanced Cobol books ?

[Steve Gomori]

I teach COBOL at a major, Midwestern (USA) university and we have struggled
for years to find a decent text. We gave up. The students have access to the
Stern & Stern text on-line with Safari (all students at our university have
access to the Safari on-line library) but we no longer require them to
purchase a text. Expensive and not satisfactory.

I use Open COBOL in the course, and I prepared my own materials. It's a one
semester course, and not what one would call "advanced."

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From: Patrick [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 1:20 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: [open-cobol-list] advanced Cobol books ?

Hi Everyone

i bought these books:

Stern/Stern/LEY Cobol for 21st Century
Murach's Structured Cobol

I have really enjoyed them but as I read through them, there were many
little things that I thought were missing from the language that I wished
were there.

Reading through Gary Cutler's Open Cobol Programmers guide, I realized that
all those little missing things are in open Cobol.

I wasted about $150 buying 9 used object oriented Cobol books. I thought
they would cover OO and modern features of the language but each one only
covered OO, almost all with different implementations and I don't personally
feel I even need OO now.

Could anyone recommend one or more advanced Cobol books that are similar to
Gary's book's coverage of the language ?

Thanks







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