University of Madras - Syllabus of Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) IIst Year - Semester III - BCA209 - Programming in COBOL
UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
Bachelor in Computer Applications (BCA)
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)
SYLLABUS
Semester III - BCA209 - Programming in COBOL
Lecturer/Lab Hours per Week: 6
Duration: 3 hrs
Max Makrs: 100
Credit: 4
Unit - I
Introduction to COBOL - IDENTIFICATION Division - ENVIRONMENT Dwision - DATA Division - PROCEDURE Division.
Unit - II
Debugging and Program Testing - Keyboard Input and Screen Display - Output Formatting - Arithmetic Operations.
Unit - III
Report Design and Coding - Conditional Operations - Designing and Writing Control Break Programs.
Unit - IV
Data validation Design and Coding - Processmg Arrays / Tables - Processing Multi - Dimensional Tables.
Unit - V
Sorting Master -Transaction File Processing - Indexed File Processing - Program Management.
Books for Study and Reference:
1. Tyler Welburn & Wilson Price - Structured COBOL (Fundamentals and Style) - Fourth Edition - McGraw Hill - 1995.
2. A.S.Philippakis and L.J. Kazmier - Advanced COBOL - McGraw Hill - 1991.
3. Roy, M,K and Ghopsh Dastidar, COBOL Programming, TMGH, New Delhi, 1989.