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Introduction to Pascal and Structured Design, Fourth Edition (Computer Science)

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Some of us ancients grew up in a world of punch cards. The more fortunate and more flexible way to train in computers is with the BASIC computer language and is the closest cousin to the "c" computer language. In a world that demanded structure where even COBOL programs written spaghetti code we got the invention of Pascal.

Pascal is a great training program that forces logic and structure down your throats at the expense of speed and efficiency. Granted some structure when possible is needed in this world hence the invention of C++. But even C++ allows you to adjust whatever is needed to accomplish the purpose of the program with a lot without a lot of bloated code. So learn Pascal by all means. You will find this book sufficient for all the Pascal you need.

They also seem to have left off the chapter on signal handling.

This book was my first ever introduction to computer programming. I took this in my junior year of high school, and found it a well-written textbook that was understandable by me and everyone else in my class. Like other textbooks in computer programming, there is only so much the authors can do to differentiate it from other texts, so I do not find it much better, or much worse, than subsequent books I have encountered in programming.