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Table of contents

 

 

Introduction

1

  1.

Elements of language

3

  2.

Our programming language

5

  3.

File makeup

7

  4.

A report program

12

  5.

File access

22

  6.

Program abends

25

  7.

The online account display

28

  8.

Program flow and compiles

34

  9.

More modifications

39

10.

Assigning values

46

11.

Updating fields

52

12.

Programming standards

65

13.

The zip code file

70

14.

Programming creativity

73

15.

Adding records and calling a program

77

16.

The called program and using

82

17.

Fuzzy math

87

18.

Deleting accounts

92

19.

Common statements

97

20.

Arrays

103

21.

Down in the dumps

109

22.

Base systems

115

23.

Sorting bubbles

119

24.

A program in action

126

 

Appendix

132