An introductory COBOL course with structured programming
Asad Khailany · 1976
ORIS 316 was designed as a core course to teach COBOL programming language and Business Information Systems to students majoring in Business Computer Information Systems. Students from other areas such as Mathematics, Computer Science, Sociology, Economics, Political Science, Marketing, Accounting, Management, etc., take this course to enhance their employment opportunities. Most of the students who take this course have some knowledge of some computer programming language, especially in FORTRAN. In the last four years, I have taught this course eight times. In the beginning, perhaps like many other instructors have done, I took the normal path to teach this course. This path was more or less influenced or determined by some textbooks or manual references. These text and manual references have different approaches; however, to teach the COBOL language, all of them agree on one point, namely, to present the PERFORM statement, the tool of structured programming in COBOL, in the late sections of their texts. And of those sources which I'm familiar with, none had the structured programming approach.