TAL/pTAL Programming Training Course and Workshop in Bangalore, Mysore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Kolkata

The TAL/pTAL Programming training course teaches a basic understanding of the Transaction Application Language (TAL) and its usage. Through a series of exercises and labs, you will gain sufficient understanding of syntax and operations to develop and maintain TAL and pTAL programs.

By attending TAL/pTAL Programming workshop, delegates will learn:

Introduction to TAL/pTAL
Program organization and general syntax
Simple data types and arrays
Data transfer, program control, and data scan statements
Operators and expressions
Pointers and addressing
Procedures and subprocedures
The Common Run-Time Environment; Interfacing C and TAL
Building native mode programs
Debugging with the Inspect tool

At least six months of Programming experience, preferably with C, PASCAL, or other block-structured procedure-based languages. Alternatively, one year of COBOL Programming experience.

This TAL/pTAL Programming class is suitable for:

Systems programmers or maintainers who want to become proficient TAL or pTAL programmers

Introduction to TAL/pTAL

Transaction Application Language (TAL and pTAL)
TAL/pTAL Programming in the Guardian environment
Tools to assist the developer in writing and debugging TAL and pTAL programs

Program organization and general syntax

Basic syntax and organization of TAL programs
Identifiers, begin-end blocks, constants, operators, variable declarations, and procedure declarations
Compiler (both TAL and pTAL) directives that control listings
Sourcing from another file
The environment set up for the Inspect product and compile for syntax only
Basic Inspect software commands

Simple data types and arrays

How data is stored and what facilities TAL provides to access data
Correct data types for various purposes, definitions, literals, labels, and data equivalencing
Types of program flow statements and their usage
Statements for CASE, IF, program control, bit extraction, and manipulation
Use constructs such as the CASE statement and WHILE loop

Terminal I/O

How to perform terminal I/O in programs
Error handling and data conversion
Perform terminal I/O to prompt for data and implement data conversion

Operators and expressions

Types of operators and expressions
Arithmetic expressions and conditional expressions
Special expressions such as: assignment, CASE, IF, and group comparison expressions

Pointers and addressing

Direct and indirect data access, pointers, and structures
Additional pTAL pointer data types
Data transfer and scan statements to illustrate use of pointers and structures
PTAL caveats
Use pointers, addressing, and data movement

Procedures and subprocedures

Procedures and subprocedures, with or without parameter passing
Procedure declaration, subprocedure declaration, and procedure calls and returns
The use of formal and actual parameters in procedure calls and returns
TAL and pTAL considerations for Guardian procedures that are obsolete for pTAL procedures
Code procedures, with and without parameters
Invoke procedures, with and without parameters

Interfacing C and TAL

Common Run-Time Environment (CRE)
How to interface C and TAL and memory model considerations
Use of development tools such as Bind, nld, and noft
Build runnable units from separately compiled C and/or TAL objects

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TAL/pTAL Programming

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