Here is the ideal book for the tens of thousands of COBOL programmers in business who want to become quickly proficient in C. Written by an experienced business data systems engineer, it is a true survival guide which uses the reader's knowledge of COBOL to build a framework for learning C easily and quickly.

Written by an experienced business data systems designer and programmer, this new tutorial provides an ideal introduction to C for the COBOL programmer who wants to become proficient in the powerful C language. Featuring side-by-side comparisons of the syntax and constructs of the two languages, C for COBOL Programmers uses the reader's knowledge of COBOL to build a framework for learning C quickly and easily. The book introduces coded examples in C early, and in the context of a business environment. A complete chapter is devoted to explaining the important differences between COBOL and C for data handling and I/O, while another chapter focusses on C programming standards as applied to business data processing. A valuable appendix cross-references COBOL commands to C commands, operators, and functions.

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Intended for the COBOL business programmer, this tutorial aims to use the reader's knowledge of COBOL to build a framework for learning C easily and quickly. Coded examples in C side-by-side with COBOL are introduced in Chapter one, and all of the programming examples arise from a business-oriented environment.