A text for use in college courses on COBOL both in two-year and four- year schools. It teaches students who may or may not have previous programming experience how to design and write COBOL programs. This revised edition (sixth was 1991) highlights structured pseudocode as well as standard pseudocode as program planning tools. Includes a copy of The Wiley COBOL Syntax Reference Guide (for the text without the guide the ISBN is 0-471-59747-3). A compiler is separately available from the publisher. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR