December 9, 2013 marked what would have been the 107 th birthday of Grace Hopper, an American computer scientist, naval admiral, and the Mother of COBOL. Created in 1959, COBOL is the development ...

COBOL offers the promise of job security and above-average pay. Even some of the cool kids are doing it. “When I was in college 30 years ago COBOL was declared dead, but it’s still going strong and it ...

Last summer, Michael Vu, a 40-year-old independent IT consultant, found himself in a wholly unexpected place midway through his career. He’d signed a three-week contract to help a major U.S. retailer ...

Once upon a time, back when dinosaurs roamed the planet, I learned COBOL. While I never wrote any deployed applications in the language, I did use it to teach an undergraduate course in computer ...

Learn cobol language programming which is used extensively in mainframe systems. This course mainly concentrates on cobol programming language . Have you ever wanted to learn to code in cobol but ...

Becoming a COBOL expert could give you a well paid job for life, but is it a job you'd want? Reliable, uncomplaining types who get quietly on with the job rarely find themselves at the centre of ...

I have three total coop terms in my comp sci program. I finished my first one at a health sciences research institute, secured my second one at the same place, but I think I want to try something ...

The COBOL skills gap is neither as extreme nor as straightforward as you might imagine. Here’s what companies can do to keep their COBOL systems running, and what would-be COBOL developers should know ...