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Here is the official description & link to the course: “Open Source COBOL Training – a brand new open source course designed to teach COBOL to beginners and re

Here is the official description & link to the course: “Open Source COBOL Training – a brand new open source course designed to teach COBOL to beginners and refresh experienced professionals. IBM worked with clients and an institute of higher education to develop an in-depth COBOL Programming with VSCode course that will be available next week on the public domain at no charge to anyone. This curriculum will be made into a self-service video course with hands-on labs and tutorials available via Coursera and other learning platforms next month. The course will be available on IBM’s own training platform free of charge.” [1] https://github.com/openmainframeproject https://github.com/openmainframeproject SOURCE: The full IBM press release is here: [2] https://newsroom.ibm.com/2020-04-09-IBM-and-Open-Mainframe-Project-Mobilize-to-Connect-States-with-COBOL-Skills https://newsroom.ibm.com/2020-04-09-IBM-and-Open-Mainframe-P...

bdavis__ 6y ago
COBOL and VS Code. How can an editor for those that can't understand vi be mentioned in a press release?
johnmertic 6y ago
I'll also add the Open Mainframe Project blog post here as well... https://www.openmainframeproject.org/blog/2020/04/09/open-mainframe-project-helps-fill-the-need-for-cobol-resources https://www.openmainframeproject.org/blog/2020/04/09/open-ma... A few other bits to clarify things ( coming from me being Director of the Open Mainframe Project )... - The coursework itself is being contributed to a new open source project being hosted by Open Mainframe Project ( CC-BY-40 license ). - We would have liked it to be ready at the time of announcement, but it literally got approved by the Open Mainframe Project TAC as a new project about an hour before the blog post went live ;-). Have no fear, it should be landing next week ( there will be a bit of work to come on translating docx files to markdown, in case anyone wants to help ). - Right now the course work focused on VS Code as an editor, but the project is very open to contributions that leverage other IDEs ( such as Eclipse Che, Atom, etc ) - Open Mainframe Project is part of the Linux Foundation, with IBM being one of the 30+ sponsoring organizations. - On the notes I've seen around "hey let's rewrite all that COBOL code in some modern language", I won't add more fuel to that fire ;-). I will however say there is some interesting work in a project hosted by Open Mainframe Project called Zowe ( https://zowe.org https://zowe.org ), which basically makes connecting to mainframe apps and data on z/OS much easier ( think REST APIs, CLI interface you can use on your laptop, App framework for creating browser based apps, etc ). Anyways - hope this helps! Feel free to ping me if you want more details or help getting engaged ( @jmertic on Twitter ).

bdavis__ 6y ago

COBOL and VS Code. How can an editor for those that can't understand vi be mentioned in a press release?

johnmertic 6y ago

I'll also add the Open Mainframe Project blog post here as well... https://www.openmainframeproject.org/blog/2020/04/09/open-mainframe-project-helps-fill-the-need-for-cobol-resources https://www.openmainframeproject.org/blog/2020/04/09/open-ma... A few other bits to clarify things ( coming from me being Director of the Open Mainframe Project )... - The coursework itself is being contributed to a new open source project being hosted by Open Mainframe Project ( CC-BY-40 license ). - We would have liked it to be ready at the time of announcement, but it literally got approved by the Open Mainframe Project TAC as a new project about an hour before the blog post went live ;-). Have no fear, it should be landing next week ( there will be a bit of work to come on translating docx files to markdown, in case anyone wants to help ). - Right now the course work focused on VS Code as an editor, but the project is very open to contributions that leverage other IDEs ( such as Eclipse Che, Atom, etc ) - Open Mainframe Project is part of the Linux Foundation, with IBM being one of the 30+ sponsoring organizations. - On the notes I've seen around "hey let's rewrite all that COBOL code in some modern language", I won't add more fuel to that fire ;-). I will however say there is some interesting work in a project hosted by Open Mainframe Project called Zowe ( https://zowe.org https://zowe.org ), which basically makes connecting to mainframe apps and data on z/OS much easier ( think REST APIs, CLI interface you can use on your laptop, App framework for creating browser based apps, etc ). Anyways - hope this helps! Feel free to ping me if you want more details or help getting engaged ( @jmertic on Twitter ).