This hands-on web based training course teaches you how to design and code COBOL programs. It explains basic COBOL constructs and continues through to lessons on strategic modular programming. The course also provides practical tips and best practices used by experienced COBOL professionals that will help you avoid programming pitfalls.
Micro Focus Visual COBOL is a contemporary development suite that allows developers to maintain, develop and modernize your applications. Visual COBOL for Studio is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for many languages. These include Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++ and COBOL. Micro Focus has provided extensive functionality to provide a Visual Studio development environment for COBOL applications. This also enables the integration of COBOL Programming with the other Visual Studio supported languages.
Eclipse is created by an Open Source community and is used in several different areas, e.g. as a development environment for Java or Android applications. Eclipse roots go back to 2001. The prime objectives of this course are to provide the developer with a practical working knowledge of how the development and testing of COBOL applications can be effectively used on the Workstation, using the Micro Focus Eclipse development tools.