The Grace Hopper Program of Fullstack Academy is excited to announce #COBOL2020 - our goal to train 2,020 COBOL programmers by the year 2020. Our COBOL curriculum is based on award winning language design by Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. Built in partnership with the US Department of Defense, COBOL alone has stood the test of time as the language that powers the modern technology world.

COBOL is an excellent language to start with as it was designed to be easily read using English-like syntax. It's also got one of the most developed tooling, testing and debugging ecosystems after over half a century of field-testing. COBOL remains in high-demand in the job marketplace - according to a 1999 Gartner study, 95% of finance and insurance data is processed with COBOL and 50% of all new mission-critical apps are still being developed in COBOL.