A Complete COBOL Tutorial for Any Programmer

Rui de Oliveira's new book, The Power of COBOL, is a comprehensive guidebook on the most widely used computer language in the world

Johannesburg, South Africa (PRWeb) November 24, 2006 -- The Power of COBOL, written by software and teaching expert Rui de Oliveira, is the most complete and user-friendly tutorial on the COBOL programming language currently available. Designed to be valuable for veteran programmers just as much as beginners new to the language, this book benefits from the author's many years of programming and instructional experience.

Derided by some as an obsolete language that will eventually disappear, COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language) is proving itself -- since its official adoption in 1960 -- of being a remarkably powerful and resilient language that offers programmers worldwide an opportunity to develop cutting-edge applications in any field. In fact, there are more lines of code written in COBOL than any other language, and for good reason.

As trendier, but also more cryptic programming languages come and go, COBOL continues to run much of the world's information technology infrastructure. The Power of COBOL provides coverage of COBOL 74, 85, and 2002, as well as the best practices of structured programming, in addition to both procedural and object-oriented COBOL. De Oliveira's outstanding book is the most efficient way for any aspiring programmer to learn this potent language, or for the experienced technologist to refresh their skills in a language that could easily outlast all the others.

The Power of COBOL is available for sale online at Amazon.com, Borders.com, and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide. The book was produced in association with MigrationWare.

About the Author

A native of Mozambique, Rui de Oliveira earned his Bachelor of Commerce (BComm) degree from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and later studied computer programming and served as a branch manager at IBM, in Mozambique, prior to moving to South Africa. He also founded Luso Computer Institute, which focuses on training computer programmers. During the past few years, the author has dedicated himself to writing, particularly on technical subjects. In addition to this book on COBOL, he is developing books on C, C++, C# .NET, VB.NET, and COBOL.NET.

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