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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the threat of Y2K reared its head many of us IT reporters wrote heaps about luring programmers out of early retirement to make sure that Cobol-based applications didn’t go kaput when the clocks ...

Though most developers are proficient in just one cloud, if any, there are smart reasons to become adept in at least two, as Google’s Forrest Brazeal has argued. As the thinking goes, no enterprise is ...

Yes, you read the title of this column correctly. College students who learn COBOL as part of their college studies were hired at a higher starting salary than their peers. I had the great pleasure of ...

I remember a day during junior high school when we spent a few minutes with our guidance counselor to discuss our ambitions for the future. Counselor: You gotta know Latin. Almost everyone I spoke to ...

In Part 1 of this series, I talked a bit about how COBOL is everywhere. From telephones to credit cards to supermarket checkouts to ATMs — sometime during the day, just about everyone touches COBOL.

One programming language you don't hear much about when covering the Microsoft-centric development beat is COBOL. That changed last week with a tweet from Miguel de Icaza, known for starting GNOME, ...

I just read Li Yang’s letter to the editor questioning Ian Archibell’s assertion that “three quarters of the respondents continue to require learning Cobol as an integral part of their computer ...