Syllabus till December 2004

As the course title indicates, this course deals with the programming language COBOL in detail. COBOL is a powerful language especially in business applications. It offers a lot of facilities in cases of business oriented problems. There exist different versions of COBOL.

Considering this particular problem, the writing of materials of this course is done with all possible flexibility of options in command/ clauses/phrases, etc. so that the learners do not face problems with their compilers during execution of COBOL programs. The course consists of two written blocks. These blocks contain the theory part of COBOL. An advanced concept of COBOL is presented including structured programming concept.

The important topics of this course include practical problems of Data processing, Table handling, Sequential files, Sorting and Merging of files, Character handling, Report writer, Subroutines, Segmentation and Library facilities.