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Call Central Registration:
457-5231
WEB COBOL
For Fall/2001 registration--
Programming Basics
with Merant Net Express
ask for Web COBOL: CPT 295 9A
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Fall/2001
P.O. Box 3777
Omaha, Nebraska 68103-0777
WHY WEB
COBOL?
Recently developed software tools, such as
Merant/Micro Focus Net Express, provide a
bridge between tried-and-true COBOL data
files, business (procedural) logic, and
programming skills on the one hand, and
cutting-edge Internet/World-Wide Web ease
of user access on the other. COBOL
programmers wishing to learn these cuttingedge skills and organizations wishing to
provide Web access to COBOL-based business
systems should find this course a valuable
introduction to these tools and techniques.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course introduces the COBOL programmer
to COBOL-based Web programming and
application development. The student will use
Merant/Micro Focus Net Express to create and
enhance HTML input and output pages and write
server-side COBOL CGI programs that include
new and legacy code.
Topics include:
accessing and updating indexed files;
using HTML controls such as
check boxes,
radio buttons,
tables,
selects,
input images, and
input buttons;
using JavaScript functions for
data validation,
default values, and
help screens;
managing repeating data;
enhancing HTML pages with
images and
hyperlinks;
using
events and event handlers,
the same form for input and output,
multiple output pages, and
multiple submit buttons for multiple
actions;
maintaining state using
hidden input,
cookies, and
server-side files; and
querying relational databases using embedded
SQL.
The course will also provide overviews of relevant
Web technologies.
COURSE PREREQUISITE
A first COBOL course (CPT 221 COBOL I)
or COBOL programming experience.
Helpful but not required will be: knowledge of
indexed files and COBOL called subprograms
(CPT 222), HTML (MCT 109/110/EIG
204/206), JavaScript (MCT 113), relational
databases (MCT 235), SQL (CPT 118/223),
interactive programming, client/server and
Web theory, and Web site design.
REQUIRED TEXTBOOK AND
MATERIALS
Title: Elements of COBOL Web Programming:
with Micro Focus Net Express
Edition: 1st, 1999
Author: Wilson Price
Publisher: Object-Z Publishing, Orinda, CA
(sales & distribution by Mike Murach &
Associates, Fresno, CA;
ISBN 0-9655945-1-3)
Materials: 10 diskettes
Students may also wish to purchase a
personal copy of Merant Net Express
(University Edition), currently at version
3.0. Classroom and lab will be equipped
with standard edition 3.1.