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@hacks4pancakes in case anyone wants to ask, where to learn COBOL, IBM has a course for that https://www.ibm.com/blogs/ibm-training/free-course-announcing-learning-cobol-programming-with-vscode/
Free course: Announcing Learning COBOL Programming with VSCode - IBM Learning Blog

You can take this 16 hour course for free and earn your badge. Get set and dive in for some actual COBOL! This introductory COBOL course helps a novice learn the Structure of COBOL programs, Data types & Variable Handling, Intrinsic Functions, Branching logic and more. The goal of the course is to enable the […]

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@xgebi @hacks4pancakes what in the world is COBOL? this is my first time hearing about but I’d love to know what the uses are for
@jennasmith @xgebi one of the oldest programming languages. The age of your grandma or great grandma. It’s still used all over.
@hacks4pancakes @xgebi omg really? That’s crazy. Ive never heard of it before in other tech spaces despite the fact it’s still used today. Maybe cause I’m still new in tech, so I’ll definitely read about that IBM course.
@jennasmith @xgebi welcome to a super fun rabbit hole!!!
@hacks4pancakes @xgebi LOL thank you, this is what I’m spending my Saturday on than touching my assignments 🫡