There are three things that interested software developers always need when learning a new programming language: a desire to learn, a few good books on said programming language as well as a decent IDE to master the basics.
If you’re a Computer Science student who has had to program in both Java and Python, you’ll know that obtaining good resources in the form of books and an IDE is as simple as a few keyboard strokes and clicks.
In fact, there are several tutorials, in the blog post, e-book, and video formats that can help you get started. Particularly, since there has been a reported shortage of COBOL programmers during the pandemic.
When it comes to COBOL whose acronym stands for Common Business Oriented Language – this language was developed long before the rapid proliferation of information over the internet. So, given all this time, a good amount of COBOL code runs important business functions on IBM mainframes today, thanks to the stability that it offers.
However, for beginners, there’s still a decent learning curve that one needs to adjust themselves to, despite COBOL being as simple and self-documenting as it is.
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