List lurker here... I learned COBOL as part of the CS curriculum at Monmouth College (now, University) back in the early '80s. It was one of several required language courses including FORTRAN (intro language at the time), COBOL, PL/I (PL/C, actually), and IBM 370 Assembler. At the time, we were still card-based, batch processed to a 370 at Rutgers via the NJ Educational Computer Network (ECN). JR On Sun, Jul 25 2021 at 10:24:49 AM -0400, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I'm doing some research on the history of COBOL education. I know we have some COBOL programmers on the list and probably have many people who have relatives that were (maybe even are still - HI NJ UNEMPLOYMENT... ahem) COBOL programmers.
My question is how and why did you learn COBOL?
Oh, and be sure to follow all the VCF social media feeds:
facebook.com/vcfederation instagram.com/vcfederation twitter.com/vcfederation
Thanks!
-Adam
--- Adam Michlin Director of Marketing Vintage Computer Federation