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

[Brian Tiffin]

Steve;

I'm keen to promote COBOL, OpenCOBOL in particular.  Would you be up
for developing a first year level curriculum?  I started a Moodle
page, but got bogged down in the moodle bits and lost the focus of the
actual lessons.  It might take a while, and a few iterations, but if
you could provide a point form list of the topics to cover in what
order, maybe we can start filling in details suitable for courseware
material?  And, if the material passed muster, maybe an open text book
suitable for Wikiversity and printing.

One aspect I'm also keen to try is Inform-7 native and web based
training games.  Make an adventure out of learning the four DIVISIONs
for instance, with Grace Hopper playing a leading role in both
positive and negative feedback.  The reward for the fist lesson would
be a cut'n'paste-able source code skeleton (again, just for instance,
which could even be customized for standard formatting expected for
each school, or training facility).

Just pondering.

Cheers,
Brian

On 8/10/13, Steve Gomori <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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."
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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