From advanced Cobol to data, file and object structures

Authors:
George Whitson
Affiliations:
The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas
Venue:
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Year:
2007

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Abstract

This paper discusses similarities and differences in teaching the CIS-3 course, Applications Programming Development II (often called Advanced COBOL), in the DPMA CIS'81 curriculum and the IS 2002.5 course (to which it morphed), Programming, Data, File and Object Structures, in the IS 2002 Curriculum. The paper presents a conceptual basis for describing the changes in teaching file management in IS curriculums over the past 25 years. Then, options used in teaching both CIS-3 and IS2002.5 are discussed, and a new approach is proposed for teaching the Programming, Data, File and Object Structures course that centers on a set of small projects. The new approach captures much of the spirit of the old CIS-3 course while covering topics that are more relevant to modern business programming.