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Structured programming concepts in an introductory COBOL course

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This paper concerns an effort to implement structured programming concepts in an introductory COBOL programming course in order to improve student program design and techniques. Since COBOL's native habitat is a business environment with recurring processing cycles and evolving systems requirements, COBOL, perhaps more than other languages, exhibits a glaring need for orderly structure and rigid standards to provide for readability, maintainability and modifiability. It is difficult for a student in a one-quarter course to fully appreciate the significance of having these characteristics in his own program when they are reviewed months (or years) later or in programs acquired from someone else.

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            cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
            ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 8, Issue 3
            Proceedings of the 6th SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education
            July 1976
            146 pages
            ISSN:0097-8418
            DOI:10.1145/952991
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              SIGCSE '76: Proceedings of the sixth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
              September 1976
              154 pages
              ISBN:9781450374453
              DOI:10.1145/800144

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