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Training materials and labs for a "Getting Started" level course on COBOL
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Getting started Paragraph 3.2 Basic editing: line numbers are off #252

Closed lsimons closed 3 years ago

lsimons commented 3 years ago

In the 2.2.0 PDF COBOL-Programming-Course-1-Getting-Started.pdf in section 3.2 it refers to a file CBL0001.

It seems the file can be found as cobol-programming-course-2.2.0/COBOL Programming Course #1 - Getting Started/Labs/cbl/CBL0001.cobol in the source code zip. It would be nice if this file were hyperlinked to avoid hunting for it. While this looks like the right file by content, the line numbers specified in the guide do not match the actual line numbers of the file, which is confusing.

tanto259 commented 3 years ago

Hi Leo,

The lab files are not hyperlinked because they are meant to be taken on a lab system. If you haven't, you can sign up for the course's lab system at https://ibm.biz/cobollabs.

Regarding the line numbers, we are planning an update to the course which should be out in the coming months, and I'll make sure that the line numbers mentioned on the PDF match to those in the system and in the GitHub files.

Thanks for mentioning this!