- Day 1 -
Your First COBOL Program
Let's start with some basics. You might find that some of this revisits material you know, particularly if you already are a programmer. COBOL sets somewhat rigid requirements for the layout, contents, and order of a program. You must be familiar with these in order to program in COBOL.
Today's lesson covers the following topics:
· What is a computer?
· What is a program?
· What is a programming language?
· What is COBOL?
· The "Hello World" program.
· The parts of a COBOL program.
· The elements of code layout.
· Commenting a COBOL program.
· What is a shell program?
Today, you'll write your first program and learn the basic parts of a COBOL program
