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COBOL Fundamentals

Learn COBOL: born in 1959, still running 220+ billion lines of code in banks, airlines, and governments worldwide. Verbose by design — programs read like English. Required reading if you want to maintain the world's financial backbone.

intermediate6 lessons3 chapters6 graded exercisesCOBOL

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What you’ll be able to do

Chapter by chapter. Every lesson ends in a graded exercise.

  • Structure and Output
  • Control Flow
  • Arithmetic and Editing
Taught in COBOL, graded on a real executor.

Curriculum

3 chapters, 6 lessons. Each lesson is a short read and a graded exercise.

  1. 1Hello, COBOLRead · exercise
  2. 2Variables and DISPLAYRead · exercise
COBOL Fundamentals