Learner Reviews & Feedback for COBOL Programming with VSCode by IBM

The course gives a reasonably good introduction to the COBOL programming language. But it did not actually get learners to write a complete COBOL program. Would that be asking too much?

It would be nice to have direct access to mainframe instead of going to a different site and have to follow all these other instructions.

I would say that this course offers a very nice simple introduction to some basic COBOL. On the negative side, we are presented with basic code and asked to identify problems, without developing our own code, neither from scratch nor full snippets of code. Especially old programming languages have their quirks that would make more practice ideal. Still, overall I would consider this course nevertheless very enjoyable and useful for a simple introduction to the topic. (I'd prefer to give it 4.5 stars, but that is not an option.)

This is a great course for building your base foundation in COBOL. The only way to go now is UP!

ACCESSIBLE AND FUN INTRO TO COBOL, FIRST TIME WORKING ON A MAINFRAME

It would be nice to cover Labs with videos

Good start, but seemed to jump around quite a bit and the labs were very basic.

Thought that this was a great course, with well put together material. As someone who was 100% new to COBOL, this felt like it provided a good overview of both using Zowe with Visual Studio Code, and the COBOL language itself. Lectures were short, entertaining, and rich in content, while the labs were rigorous enough to further familiarize with the lecture and quizzes.

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Quiero expresar que al haber completado COBOL. Me resulto muy interesante y practico para aplicarlo en futuro en una empresa. Gracias Cousera y al profesor a cargo de dictar el cursado.

Another great course from IBM with Jeff Bisti as the instructor. He did a fantastic job explaining the COBOL concepts and the labs were very engaging as well as informative. I look forward to more mainframe courses!

Very good course for starting with COBOL or remove the dust and remind just is my case. Videos long enough. Quizzes agree with content. Labs could be a little more demanding. Thanks a lot.

I have been programming on COBOL language many years, 11 years :), but I don´t found many courses about that, for that I am currenly in this and other courses now :) Thank you for sharing.

It was a good course and covered many fundamental concepts as well as giving hands on experience using Visual Studio and the mainframe.

Me satisfizo la participación en el curso, considero que adquirí el conocimiento primordial para comprender el funcionamiento de COBOL.

Já conhecia COBOL, fiz o curso para conhecer o VSCode, e valeu a pena por consegui usar o mesmo. Foi bastante didático.

Very easy to follow.

Very informative.

Great tools.

Jeff Bisti is my personal favorite instructor in Coursera.

The course is very good for remembering language concepts, its parts, commands, divisions, etc. Liked it.

Very good - Excellent overview of COBOL - Good instructions to configure laptop and access mainframe.

Excelente. Uma grande experiência em compilar e executar programas Cobol em uma interface simples.

Excelente iniciación al lenguaje COBOL. Enseñanza practica y actualizada gracias al uso de VSCode

This is the first time that I ejoy a COBOL cuorse online. Good mood of teacher.

Simple, straight forward, and I benefitted greatly! Thank you so much.

A Good Course For Learn The Current Version of the ANSI COBOL Standard

excellent course, great content and great labs to work along too.

A metodologia de ensino é fantástica. Parabéns aos criadores.