Everything you want to know about COBOL, but were afraid to ask

Here’s 13 links to get you started learning more about COBOL. It’s got some old school stuff and some cool cloud stuff, too.

1. Here’s a good piece that should convince you to get into COBOL: I Took a COBOL Course and I Liked It
2. As is this: Don’t hate COBOL until you’ve tried it | Opensource.com
3. Convinced? Try this: Build your first COBOL application – IBM Developer
4. Or if you are an AWS fan: toricls/cobolambda: Serverless COBOL on AWS Lambda.
5. More COBOL in the cloud: Learn how to run COBOL in a cloud native way – IBM Developer
6. This site has tutorials….COBOL Tutorial – Tutorialspoint
7. …and syntax information: COBOL – Basic Syntax – Tutorialspoint
8. Here’s some useful source code: IBM/kubernetes-cobol: A Code Pattern to teach how to run a COBOL program on Kubernetes
9. Here’s some perspective: On the past, present, and future of COBOL – Increment: Programming Languages
10. More source: 3 open source projects keeping COBOL alive and well | Opensource.com
11. More courses: COBOL Programming Course
12. More on COBOL: Open Mainframe Project Helps Fill the Need for COBOL Resources – Open Mainframe Project
13. Now you’re skilled, get yourself a mainframe! Get hands-on COBOL development experience with IBM Z software trials – IBM Developer

Send me a link to your Github repo once you are done and I’ll add it here!

P.S. Here some bonus links:

• I quite liked this: Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer – HedgeDoc