TAL/pTAL Programming Training in Greece

  • Delivery Method: Online Instructor-Led / Classroom Based / Onsite
  • Participation Model: Public Training / Private / In-House Training
  • Duration: 4 Days
  • Level: Fundamentals
  • Price: From €4,900 +TAX
  • Upcoming Date:

This 4-day course teaches a basic understanding of the Transaction Application Language (TAL) and its usage. Through a series of exercises and labs, students will gain sufficient understanding of syntax and operations to develop and maintain TAL and pTAL programs.



Prerequisites

  • Concepts and Facilities course

Recommended: At least six months of programming experience, preferably with C, PASCAL, or other block-structured procedure based languages. Alternatively, one year of COBOL 85 programming experience

Audience

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


For corporate groups, we can organize this training as an on-site private group.
HAVELSAN
ASELSAN
PepsiCo Türkiye
JTI TÜTÜN ÜRÜNLERİ SANAYİ A.Ş.
ING Bank
DHL
MASTERCARD
Huawei
TotalEnergies
Mercedes-Benz Türk A.Ş.
Goodyear
FORD OTOMOTIV SANAYI A.S.
3M COMPANY
Schneider Electric
Central Bank of Azerbaijan
BP Petrolleri
Procter & Gamble (P&G)
Qatar Foundation
Bank Of China
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
MORGAN STANLEY & CO Inc
Novo Nordisk
DEUTSCHE BANK
Azerbaycan Cumhuriyeti Emek ve Ahalinin Sosyal Güvenliği Bakanlığı
ACCENTURE

What You 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


Benefits to you

  • 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

Training Outline

Introduction to TAL/pTAL

  • Introduce the Tandem Transaction Application Language (TAL and pTAL)
  • Describe TAL/pTAL programming in the Guardian environment
  • Describe tools to assist the developer in writing and debugging TAL and pTAL programs

Program organization and general syntax

  • Discuss basic syntax and organization of TAL programs
  • Discuss identifiers, begin-end blocks, constants, operators, variable declarations, and procedure declarations.
  • Describe compiler (both TAL and pTAL) directives that control listings
  • Describe sourcing from another file
  • Explain the environment set up for the Inspect product and compile for syntax only
  • Demonstrate basic Inspect software commands

Simple data types and arrays program flow statements

  • Describe how data is stored and what facilities TAL provides to access data
  • Discuss correct data types for various purposes, definitions, literals, labels, and data equivalencing
  • Describe types of program flow statements and their usage
  • Describe statements for CASE, IF, program control, bit extraction, and manipulation
  • Lab Exercise
  • Use constructs such as the CASE statement and WHILE loop

Terminal I/O

  • Discuss how to perform terminal I/O in programs
  • Discuss error handling and data conversion
  • Lab Exercise
  • Perform terminal I/O to prompt for data and implement data conversion

Operators and expressions

  • Describe types of operators and expressions
  • Discuss arithmetic expressions and conditional expressions
  • Discuss special expressions such as: assignment, CASE, IF, and group comparison expressions

Pointers and addressing

  • Describe direct and indirect data access, pointers, and structures.
  • Discuss additional pTAL pointer data types
  • Discuss data transfer and scan statements to illustrate use of pointers and structures
  • Describe pTAL caveats
  • Lab Exercise
  • Use pointers, addressing, and data movement

Procedures and subprocedures

  • Describe procedures and subprocedures, with or without parameter passing
  • Discuss procedure declaration, subprocedure declaration, and procedure calls and returns
  • Explain the use of formal and actual parameters in procedure calls and returns
  • Discuss TAL and pTAL considerations for Guardian procedures that are obsolete for pTAL procedures
  • Lab Exercise
  • Code procedures, with and without parameters
  • Invoke procedures, with and without parameters

Interfacing C and TAL

  • Describe the Common Run-Time Environment (CRE)
  • Demonstrate ho to interface C and TAL and memory model considerations
  • Discuss the use of development tools such as Bind, nld, and noft
  • Lab Exercise
  • Build runnable units from separately compiled C and/or TAL objects

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Experience TAL/pTAL Programming in Greece through Bilginç IT Academy's live and interactive virtual classroom environment. Join a Public course as an individual delegate or arrange a dedicated Private / In-house online training program exclusively for your organization.

  • Delivery Method: Online Instructor-Led
  • Participation Model: Public / Private (In-house)
  • Live and Interactive Training: Connect with your instructor in real time and actively participate through discussions, Q&A sessions, practical exercises, and group activities.
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  • Worldwide Access: Join our live virtual classrooms from Greece or anywhere else in the world, or arrange a dedicated online training program for your organization.

Experience TAL/pTAL Programming through face-to-face Classroom Based training in Greece. Training can be delivered as a Public course open to individual delegates or as a dedicated Private / In-house class for your organization.

  • Delivery Method: Classroom Based
  • Participation Model: Public / Private (In-house)
  • Face-to-Face Learning: Interact directly with your instructor and fellow delegates in an engaging classroom environment.
  • Experienced Trainers: Learn from specialists with extensive industry experience and practical real-world knowledge.
  • Professional Training Environment: Attend training in comfortable, well-equipped classrooms designed to support effective learning.
  • Practical Learning: Depending on the course, reinforce your knowledge through hands-on exercises, scenarios, case studies, and instructor-led activities.

Arrange TAL/pTAL Programming in Greece as a dedicated Onsite training program for your organization. Bilginç IT Academy trainers can deliver the training at your office or another location of your choice, with the program planned around your team's requirements and business objectives.

  • Delivery Method: Onsite
  • Participation Model: Private (In-house)
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  • Tailored Course Content: Adapt the training program to your projects, team structure, existing skill levels, and specific business requirements.
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TAL/pTAL Programming Training Course in Greece Schedule

Join our public courses in our Greece facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule.

For corporate groups, we can organize this training as an on-site private group.
04 Νοεμβρίου 2026 (4 Days)
Athens, Thessaloniki
€4,900 +TAX
06 Νοεμβρίου 2026 (4 Days)
Athens, Thessaloniki
€4,900 +TAX
11 Νοεμβρίου 2026 (4 Days)
Athens, Thessaloniki
€4,900 +TAX
17 Νοεμβρίου 2026 (4 Days)
Athens, Thessaloniki
€4,900 +TAX
11 Ιανουαρίου 2027 (4 Days)
Athens, Thessaloniki
€4,900 +TAX
13 Ιανουαρίου 2027 (4 Days)
Athens, Thessaloniki
€4,900 +TAX
15 Φεβρουαρίου 2027 (4 Days)
Athens, Thessaloniki
€4,900 +TAX
06 Μαρτίου 2027 (4 Days)
Athens, Thessaloniki
€4,900 +TAX

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