Bob Reselman: The Beauty of the COBOL Programming Language

About the Presentation:

Recently, Bob Reselmen decided to learn COBOL, for no other reason than the fact that there are a lot of mainframe installations out there and it’s the mainstay language for many of them. Mainframes are critical to the operations of many banks, insurance companies, transportation systems and governmental agencies. Learning COBOL had been on his Bucket List for while. So he took the plunge. And now it's your turn.

Topics covered during this talk are:

A brief history of COBOL
How to get up and running programming COBOL on your laptop
A demonstration of COBOL code in action
Understanding the structure of a COBOL program
Understanding how COBOL handles data types and variables
Understanding how COBOL encapsulates behavior into functions
How to make COBOL a lucrative part of your career path

Here is the article upon which talk is based:

https://devops.com/the-beauty-of-the-cobol-programming-language-v2/

About the presenter

Bob Reselman is a nationally-known software developer, system architect, industry analyst and technical writer/journalist. Bob has written four books on computer programming and dozens of articles about topics related to software development technologies and techniques, as well as the culture of software development. Bob lives in Los Angeles. In addition to his software development and testing activities, Bob is in the process of writing a book about the impact of automation on human employment.

About the Location:

After turning off of Jefferson on to Alla Road, there is free street parking at the first right Coral Tree Place. From there you can enter the Reserve business park at the Gate 1 main entry which is the gate near the end of the road, or via a pedestrian entrance near gate 2.

Space 900 is the large building that is closest to the Gate 1 main entrance.

Acknowledgements:

Thanks to L. A. Big Data User Group for allowing UUASC to co-present this presentation.

Special thanks to Verizon Digital Media (https://www.verizondigitalmedia.com/) for hosting this meet up and providing food, BEveERages and live stream (https://www.verizondigitalmedia.com/solutions/live-streaming/). Follow the VDMS engineering team on twitter at @engage_vdms (https://twitter.com/engage_vdms) and tweet your thanks.

Live Streaming Information

This presentation will be live streamed via Uplynk (https://www.verizondigitalmedia.com/solutions/live-streaming/) which is part of VDMS and uses the Edgecast network for content delivery.

The livestream of the presentation can be viewed at ...

(https://content.uplynk.com/player5/7U7yxu7dIxAYCWFCavWpOrse.html)

Note live streaming is somewhat problematic, the stream should come up sometime after 6:30PM on the day of the event. If some cases a new hangout may need to be created so keep an eye on the comments section of this meet up page for any last minute changes.

About UUASC:

The UUASC (http://uuasc.org (http://uuasc.org/)) is for all persons using UNIX/Linux either personally or professionally, or interested in learning more about UNIX. We recognize all varieties of UNIX, including (without prejudice) BSD, Linux, SVr4, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, and SCO. This is a good place to meet others with similar interests and broaden your skills and knowledge.

We try to meet on the first Thursday of the month in L.A.

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