Re: gnu-cobol on Exercism.org

[Michael Anderson]

For Students, Free Format is the best.


On 10/24/21 10:00 PM, Bruce Axtens wrote:
> G'day everyone
>
> Just letting you know that I've created a gnu-cobol track on 
> Exercism.org .
>
> As I get going on this I have some questions:
>
>     1. Should I insist on free-format or standard format for students' 
> code?
>
>     2. Is there are preferred unit test framework? I've discovered three.
>
> Most of the other languages have a minimum of 20 exercises before 
> moving off into more creative tasks. I could do with some suggestions 
> re tasks that introduce the student to the data processing 
> capabilities of COBOL. Simply re-expressing all the VB.NET (for 
> example) exercises in COBOL seems a bit pointless.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Bruce.