Intermediate Level Users.
Using the friendly IPE format, this book is a savvy reference for those programming students and professionals looking for quick entry into the Year 2000 job bonanza. Unlike other Year 2000 or COBOL titles, this is the first to bring these two topics together in a single volume that wastes no time laying out the fundamentals of the COBOL language and which explains the ways in which bad dates become buried in legacy code.
Parts I and II introduce these topics in a fast and friendly style that provide the background programmers need to participate in Y2K teams. Y2K war stories from more than a dozen industry interviews are sprinkled throughout. The tables and references of Part III summarise this information in a variety of formats, including focused COBOL Language and Y2K Problem References, as well as task/command, problem/solution and A-Z cross-references.
