Reviews table handling, file processing, subprogram interface, advanced features, a comparison of COBOL-74 and COBOL-85, and ANSI COBOL reserved words.

For those who have used VS COBOL, basic COBOL II, or COBOL II Release 2 and would like to learn more about COBOL II Release 3, this book is a must. The author covers programming techniques, debugging, and problems determination techniques.

REA’s Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing for exams, doing homework and will remain a lasting reference source for students, teachers, and professionals. Data Structures II includes sets, trees, advanced sorting, elementary graph theory, hashing, memory management and garbage collection, and appendices on recursion vs. iteration, algebraic notation, and large integer arithmetic.

Reviews program structure and general syntax, procedure division structure and statements, structured programming, and ANSI COBOL reserved words.

REA’s Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing for exams, doing homework and will remain a lasting reference source for students, teachers, and professionals. Computer Science II includes organization of a computer, memory and input/output, coding, data structures, and program development. Also included is an overview of the most commonly used computer languages.