Teaching personal computer Cobol with Watcom Cobol

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Teaching personal computer Cobol with Watcom Cobol

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Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education archive
Proceedings of the eighteenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education table of contents

St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Pages: 40 - 43

Year of Publication: 1987

ISBN:0-89791-217-9

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Joseph W. Jr. Trigg

Computer Science Department, The University of Hichigan - Flint, Flint, Michigan

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SIGCSE: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The teaching transition from a mainframe language to a subset of the same language for personal computer use could be an unpleasant experience without adequate preparation. This paper is intended to be of benefit for the teachers of COBOL who are contemplating a change from mainframe COBOL to the WATCOM COBOL interpreter.

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	1	WATCOM COBOL TUTORIAL AND REFERENCE MANUAL, P. H. Dirksen, J. W. Welch, WATCOM Publications, 1983
	2	WRITING STRUCTUP~ED COBOL, D. L. Johnson, Addison-Wesley" Publishing Company, 1986