Add Additional Exercise to Lab 8.6: Count Clients from a Different State #333
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Proposed changes
This PR adds a hands-on exercise to the lab
8.6
involvingCBL0006
andCBL0006J
. The original program counts clients fromVirginia
. This exercise challenges learners to update the logic to count clients from a different state (e.g.,New York
), encouraging deeper understanding of conditional filtering, working-storage layout, and output formatting in COBOL.The goal is to move students away from simple copy-paste behavior and encourage them to read, reason, and modify code thoughtfully. Lab hints and complete solution code (
CBL0006C
) have been included.Fixes # N/A (new enhancement)
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