Modern COBOL: Professional Programmer's Fast-Track
What you'll learn
- Protect you creations by sharing 100% compiled code!
- Create COBOL programs on your own, local, computer
- Accept, edit & manage data inputs
- Learn how to create colorful console screens
- Save data into files
- Prepare for a career as a Modern COBOL Programmer
- Discover industry-standard flow-charting techniques
- Start programming using COBOL, TODAY!
Requirements
- You'll need to be able to install software
- You'll need access to Linux, macOS, CYGWIN, or Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
Description
Discover how to create applications on your computer using GnuCobol - COBOL's most free & portable programming standard!
COBOL Opportunities
It is no news that the supply of COBOL software developers is decreasing. Folks who have held their jobs for an entire lifetime are retiring. As COBOL developers retire, corporate recruiters find themselves frantically searching to replacement them. Rather than abandoning decades of multi-million dollar software & technology projects, many companies are understandably connecting their generational COBOL investments to the cloud!
Careers - Not Jobs
Gifting software developers life-long careers, COBOL technology remains a predictable part of every big, tenured, modern business. Governments, laboratories, banks, and many, many other employers & industries are extending great-paying opportunities to a new crop of modern COBOL professionals!
Professional Lifestyles
COBOL software developers often enjoy far more maintainable working hours. Unusually superior work-life balances, as well as profitable pensions. COBOL has powered - and will continue to empower - a seemingly legion of legendary business-oriented software developers.
Understandable Software
Unlike most modern programming languages, COBOL is also easier to read. Ever creating somewhat more maintainable, self-documenting code, if you enjoy tech and don't mind typing then COBOL will not only be fun, but also enjoyably easy to learn!
Standard COBOL
Maybe you've heard about computer programming "standards"?
As you might suspect, computer language standards ensured that code written on one computer can be used upon another. --Whilst other computing programming standards change frequently, COBOL standards do not.
When it comes to the COBOL programming standard, COBOL was simply done right the first time. Indeed, the modern COBOL is so good that it needs no revision every-year; unlike every other standard with which I am familiar, if the future of COBOL is anything like its past, then what COBOL you'll learn today will probably not change in your lifetime.
Can any other programming technology boast the same?
Business First?
Yes, COBOL is so “business oriented” that companies do not have to pay for constant rewrites & upgrades. From Federal, State, and Local Governments COBOL projects are everywhere. From local banking to Wall Street, COBOL has been in use for decades. All of which can use your help!
Conclusions
So if you - or your company - ever tires of the forever-disruptions of other programming ‘tech, then consider using safe, secure, and Modern COBOL. From AWS to zOS, not only has the rumor of COBOLs death been highly exaggerated, but when was the last time anyone heard of a virus attack crippling big-iron? Ransomware?
So when talking about that return on any programming investment (RoI) ... bottom-lines ... profitability, as well as job securities, perhaps it is well PAST time for each and all to learn how to "talk COBOL!"
Who this course is for:
- Anyone
Instructor
- 3.9 Instructor Rating
- 469 Reviews
- 51,939 Students
- 33 Courses
Randall Nagy is a tenured "hands-on" manager, software development engineer, author, and designer / architect. Mr. Nagy has served as a Principal Software Development Engineer at Informix (a major database company acquired by IBM,) Technical Section Leader at the US Army's Electronic Proving Ground (EPG/DTC) as well as the Principal Trainer for Borland Software Corporation.
Mr. Nagy's "Linked In" recommendations testify to a 30+ year track record of excellent personal communication skills, design & analysis abilities, as well as superior consulting, coding, & training results.
Though tenured, Mr. Nagy is most often described as being authoritatively technical, yet very personable & easy to get along with.
The author of over 30 on-line Udemy titles and 50+ open-source projects, Mr. Nagy's hands-on experience encompasses multiple programming technologies & computing platforms.
Technically speaking, "... from the best Service-Oriented practices to embedded engineering, I maintain an extensive hands-on skill set. I have both designed and personally implemented architectures from the client to the server, well into the RFC Layer.
From writing for BYTE Magazine to books on Amazon, I have helped thousands of students master tough technical concepts. I hope you will like our training!"