This course is geared towards anyone interested in learning about IBM, COBOL, mainframe computing, and the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and increasing their knowledge and hands on experience with core concepts and technologies including life cycle and systems analysis concepts, design and structured coding, and a wide variety of topics designed to provide relevant, requisite working knowledge and practical experience.
Status: COBOL (Programming Language)
COBOL (Programming Language)
Status: Scrum (Software Development)
Scrum (Software Development)
Beginner·Course·15 hours
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5.0
·Reviewed Nov 23, 2025
I am so happy for this opportunity and I really enjoyed the learning process! Great resources and instructors! I enjoyed the whole course!
4.0
·Reviewed Dec 2, 2025
Some items have a wrong doc link (reading material)
4.0
·Reviewed Oct 30, 2025
tradução acabou atrapalhando, mas tem um ótimo conteudo.
4.0
·Reviewed Mar 3, 2026
Quite a bit of review from the Software Development Practices course, but with some new material on testing & systems analysis.
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Gilberto
5.0
·Reviewed Apr 14, 2023
Un curso muy interesante, vale la pena ya que pocas personas se certifican en este lenguaje que aunque es viejo hoy en dia es un auge en el sector bancario. Super recomendado
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Barbara
5.0
·Reviewed Nov 24, 2025
I am so happy for this opportunity and I really enjoyed the learning process! Great resources and instructors! I enjoyed the whole course!
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Soumya
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 21, 2026
Weel designed for Mainfrmae professionals
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Nadia
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 25, 2025
Excelente!
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Felipe
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 28, 2026
Muito bom
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GOLLA
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 20, 2025
Excellent
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Franklin
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 3, 2023
Excellent
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Sayli
5.0
·Reviewed Feb 13, 2023
perfect
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Javier
5.0
·Reviewed Nov 5, 2024
Good
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Francisco
4.0
·Reviewed Jan 11, 2025
Overall i think this is the best option if you want a easy way to learn, with good quality information, about COBOL and Mainfram worlds.
Don´t lose time searching youtube etc, etc. Grab this course and start learning COBOL.
Some cons definitely the tests could be better sometimes i found myself losing points for "stupid" stuff and some questions had wrong responses, then the final test had the correct one.
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Jim
4.0
·Reviewed Mar 3, 2026
Quite a bit of review from the Software Development Practices course, but with some new material on testing & systems analysis.
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Thiago
4.0
·Reviewed Oct 30, 2025
tradução acabou atrapalhando, mas tem um ótimo conteudo.
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Luc-Edouard
4.0
·Reviewed Dec 2, 2025
Some items have a wrong doc link (reading material)
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Catherine
3.0
·Reviewed Sep 18, 2022
The readings were very good. The content needs some updating I think. Although I did put in the effort to respond to the discussion prompts, it is good they were optional, since there wasn't any discussion. Likewise with the peer reviewed assignments. I have to say that they were very confusing as to exactly what we were supposed to do. It would have been a great idea to practice what I was learning, but I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to be evaluating and documenting the learning environment as is, or whether I was supposed to assume it hadn't been built yet. I probably chose the wrong approach. The assignments definitely need clarification, especially if they are eventually graded.
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Sombra
3.0
·Reviewed Oct 22, 2025
The four last courses, it's not so great, pretty weak to learn and nothing about practice.
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Jhonnatan
3.0
·Reviewed Nov 14, 2022
a lot of information, a lot of theory but little practice in programming
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Edson
2.0
·Reviewed Apr 10, 2026
Curso está muito desatualizado ,muitos erros como links não encontrados , durante o quiz a página vive caindo sem contar que alguns casos a resposta tem que ser em inglês mesmo que eu configure para língua portuguesa . Conteúdo de cobol mesmo pouco .
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Deleted
1.0
·Reviewed Jun 25, 2023
This is another course that is extremely important to get right, but which functionally is very thin in terms of actual content. The idea of having peer-graded assignments is interesting, but the actual lectures and reading in the course don't really support that level of work - case and point, Agile Methodologies are condensed down to about two minutes of video, 48 seconds of which is introducing the reading. Overall I get the impression that this is content from a face-to-face workshop that was rapidly converted for Coursera.
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David
1.0
·Reviewed Oct 1, 2025
some of the reading materials were not available. some were outdated. instead of teaching cobol the course spent more time talking about testing methodologies and other remotely related subjects.
i dont feel i can code in cobol more than helloword level.
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asts
1.0
·Reviewed Jul 12, 2024
broken assignments and readings and lack of promised labs, this is an awful way to end a development cert. Its incredibly disappointing when IBM can put out good courses