There are actually quite a number of courses and books to learn COBOL. Many of the courses are from overseas, because offshoring firms have been meeting the demand for COBOL for years.
I bought and ran through this Udemy course, which is pretty good, and among several COBOL books on Kindle, I like Beginning COBOL for Programmers by Michael Coughlan. There are a mountain of YouTube videos, of which I only looked at a few. This one seems good, but search for COBOL and you’ll find lots more.
There will be more to come as well. On April 9th, IBM and the Open Mainframe Project announced a joint project to connect states with COBOL skills and to teach COBOL Programming. It has several resources, including a bulletin board for COBOL programmers who want to get back in the business, and the beginnings of an open source COBOL course.
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