COBOL Course - Programming with VSCode
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Date: 2022-03-14
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Comments and reviews: 9
Peeter
I have to laugh at the naive statement that COBOL is easy to understand because it is English like, doesn't account for the function-equivalent in COBOL (paragraph) cannot take parameters, so programs are held together by thousands of lines of global variables without clear connection to where they are used nor why.
Almost every COBOL program that I have seen so far, unless it is just an experimental toy program, is a horrendous mess of global variables with gotos or other non-obvious control transfer mechanisms that has to be reverse engineered to make the most trivial change, or even understand what it was attempting to accomplish.
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I have to laugh at the naive statement that COBOL is easy to understand because it is English like, doesn't account for the function-equivalent in COBOL (paragraph) cannot take parameters, so programs are held together by thousands of lines of global variables without clear connection to where they are used nor why.
Almost every COBOL program that I have seen so far, unless it is just an experimental toy program, is a horrendous mess of global variables with gotos or other non-obvious control transfer mechanisms that has to be reverse engineered to make the most trivial change, or even understand what it was attempting to accomplish.
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wacom
After Clicking the video i expected another wonderful tutorial that would spoon feed me what COBOL is and how to do it.
I WAS WRONG.
I didn't even watch the video and I think what I read so far far exceeds anything covered in the 1 hour video.
Click the link, Ask around, Google, Download, Stay proactive.
It's separating the wheat from chaff!
Don't even watch past 5:20
Click on the links and get serious. You'll see what I mean!
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After Clicking the video i expected another wonderful tutorial that would spoon feed me what COBOL is and how to do it.
I WAS WRONG.
I didn't even watch the video and I think what I read so far far exceeds anything covered in the 1 hour video.
Click the link, Ask around, Google, Download, Stay proactive.
It's separating the wheat from chaff!
Don't even watch past 5:20
Click on the links and get serious. You'll see what I mean!
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Mattias
1:01:53 I really hope they don't teach the kids in American that order of operations: it's incorrect. If you do all additions before subtractions or all multiplications before divisions, you get the wrong result. Normally you are thought multiplication and division at the same time, same for addition and subtractions, but you can also do, brackets, exponents, division, multiplication, subtraction, and then addition.
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1:01:53 I really hope they don't teach the kids in American that order of operations: it's incorrect. If you do all additions before subtractions or all multiplications before divisions, you get the wrong result. Normally you are thought multiplication and division at the same time, same for addition and subtractions, but you can also do, brackets, exponents, division, multiplication, subtraction, and then addition.
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ZF12
You: Learning COBOL says -I want to work on the most important code running on the most important systems running the types of things that the world depends on.-
Me: I want to learn COBOL because I like money and job security
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You: Learning COBOL says -I want to work on the most important code running on the most important systems running the types of things that the world depends on.-
Me: I want to learn COBOL because I like money and job security
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mike
Honestly too much of the face, if you describing division, section... I prefer seeing something else instead of your fat face. I don't need to see you talk all the time. Put on PowerPoint slides over your face.
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Honestly too much of the face, if you describing division, section... I prefer seeing something else instead of your fat face. I don't need to see you talk all the time. Put on PowerPoint slides over your face.
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itech
I used to write COBOL program exactly same way. Same comments and ------------------------------
Procedure division
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Very nice experience of coding in COBOL.
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I used to write COBOL program exactly same way. Same comments and ------------------------------
Procedure division
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Very nice experience of coding in COBOL.
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Omega_Dawg
Holy cow. You know, ive been working the oldest government systems. I think...d...dare i say im trying to learn this? I just earned my cissp, i have no idea about coding but it attracts me.
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Holy cow. You know, ive been working the oldest government systems. I think...d...dare i say im trying to learn this? I just earned my cissp, i have no idea about coding but it attracts me.
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Dee
I am trying to follow the guide but it says I need to sign up to get the credentials to finish the setup. Where do I go to register for the credentials? I am on page 14 of the get started manual.
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I am trying to follow the guide but it says I need to sign up to get the credentials to finish the setup. Where do I go to register for the credentials? I am on page 14 of the get started manual.
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City
world need heroes (you not will be modern but you will be golden) middle age of cobol programmer 69 years old. But banks not will be change on other langauage, -why?? it work!-
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world need heroes (you not will be modern but you will be golden) middle age of cobol programmer 69 years old. But banks not will be change on other langauage, -why?? it work!-
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