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@Article{Khailany:1976:ICC,
  author =       "Asad Khailany",
  title =        "An introductory {COBOL} course with structured
                 programming",
  journal =      j-SIGCSE,
  volume =       "8",
  number =       "1",
  pages =        "11--16",
  month =        feb,
  year =         "1976",
  CODEN =        "SIGSD3",
  DOI =          "https://doi.org/10.1145/952989.803441",
  ISSN =         "0097-8418 (print), 2331-3927 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "0097-8418",
  bibdate =      "Sun Nov 18 08:53:52 MST 2012",
  bibsource =    "http://portal.acm.org/;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigcse1970.bib",
  note =         "Proceedings of the SIGCSE--SIGCUE joint symposium on
                 Computer science education.",
  abstract =     "ORIS 316 was designed as a core course to teach COBOL
                 programming language and Business Information Systems
                 to students majoring in Business Computer Information
                 Systems. Students from other areas such as Mathematics,
                 Computer Science, Sociology, Economics, Political
                 Science, Marketing, Accounting, Management, etc., take
                 this course to enhance their employment opportunities.
                 Most of the students who take this course have some
                 knowledge of some computer programming language,
                 especially in FORTRAN. In the last four years, I have
                 taught this course eight times. In the beginning,
                 perhaps like many other instructors have done, I took
                 the normal path to teach this course. This path was
                 more or less influenced or determined by some textbooks
                 or manual references. These text and manual references
                 have different approaches; however, to teach the COBOL
                 language, all of them agree on one point, namely, to
                 present the PERFORM statement, the tool of structured
                 programming in COBOL, in the late sections of their
                 texts. And of those sources which I'm familiar with,
                 none had the structured programming approach. Because
                 of the popularity of structured programming especially
                 in the business data processing environment, and since
                 many of our students start their professional work as a
                 programmer or as a systems analyst, it was determined
                 that the structured programming technique and modular
                 programming concept should be introduced as early as
                 possible in the semester. This has been done in the
                 last three offerings of the course and the results have
                 been impressive. Students' evaluations of the same
                 instructor and the same course were considerably higher
                 than before and their response to the new approach has
                 been encouraging.",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  fjournal =     "SIGCSE Bulletin (ACM Special Interest Group on
                 Computer Science Education)",
  journal-URL =  "http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?idx=J688",
}

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