openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course
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Training materials and labs for a "Getting Started" level course on COBOL
12 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 2 stories, 10 comments · first 2020-04-11 · latest 2022-11-28
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A shop I worked in ages ago had a mainframe on site supporting lots of batched transactions over the course of a 24 hour period, along with the daily operations for a 35 facility logistics company, spread throughout the southeastern United…
comment by jbrogers63 · 2022-11-28 · in Ask HN: Why is there so little info on the web about IBM mainframe programming? -
The Linux Foundation's Open Mainframe Foundation has some COBOL courses. Here is their "getting started": https://github.com/openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-co...
comment by dwheeler · 2022-09-06 · in My Surreal Experience with COBOL -
A great learning resource for COBOL is the Open Mainframe Project's COBOL Programming Course. The content is self-paced with labs and the best part is you get to do the labs on a real Mainframe. Check it out:…
comment by Sudharsana · 2022-06-28 · in Ask HN: How do I learn real-world COBOL? -
IBM offers a free set of courses here: https://ibmzxplore.influitive.com . I played around with it a few months ago. As far as I know it's still available. It doesn't cover COBOL in great depth but does touch on various pieces of the zOS…
comment by tgflynn · 2022-06-28 · in Ask HN: How do I learn real-world COBOL? -
It's Sunday, my dad was a COBOL programmer, sure I'll spend 15 minutes checking it out. The main site link on GitHub is a 404 though [0]. The "getting started" link in the README points to a release notes page and do you have to scroll…
comment by owyn · 2022-05-01 · in COBOL Programming Course -
I can't answer your last question, but I don't see why it wouldn't be possible. From what I've seen there are z/OS emulators that can be used for practice, so it wouldn't be far fetched to transition to real hardware from there. A quick…
comment by imiric · 2021-11-16 · in Ask HN: What Niche Language to Learn? -
It's certainly not as straighforward as learning a more popular language and environment, but there are online resources if you look for them. A quick search yielded https://github.com/openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-co... There…
comment by imiric · 2021-11-16 · in Ask HN: What Niche Language to Learn? -
There’s also https://github.com/openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-co... which IIRC is an IBM backed open source course.
comment by beny23 · 2020-11-22 · in COBOL underpins the entire financial system -
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-open-mainframe-project-lau... seems to have more information but the course itself ( https://github.com/openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-co... ) is just an empty Github repository. edit to add…
comment by mikequinlan · 2020-04-11 · in IBM will offer free COBOL training