History and conditions of use
The current state of COBOL
Development environment
Presentation of COBOL for connoisseurs of other
COBOL 85 languages – detail and alternatives

Workshop: Installation of the development environment – project management

Structure of a Cobol program
General presentation of the four divisions
Definition of variables and literals
Identification Division
Environment Division
Configuration
Input-Output section
String manipulation section

Workshop: Writing of a first program and execution

Data division: Description of data
Procedure Division: Basic instructions
Internal representation of data: USAGE clauses
Using tables

Workshop: manipulation of different data structures

Sequential
files Edit
files Direct access files

Workshop: read and write access to files – management of several formats