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Turbo Pascal 7.0 (4th Edition)

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This was my textbook for Pascal at the University at Central Florida. It has helped me through Computer Science I and II. It is well written and easy to understand. It helps for both the beginner and advanced programmers. This is a need for anyone who programs in Pascal.

The High School I attended used this book for its first-year programming course. It is well written, and clearly explains all of the basic concepts, without leaving out any of the more complex parts of the language

I will definitely be purchasing other books from this author. He has a very direct, and extremely clear way of explaining what would have otherwise been confusing principles.

This is the best programming text I have ever found and I have close to a dozen on various languages. This is the first I have seen that gets into debugging and how to use the debugger. It has the best examples and exercises I have yet found. Too bad Pascal is considered 'obsolete', but this book is also great for general programming and program planning. I'm going to try to find C++ books by the same guy. My only complaint about this (and most other books) is that they assume you are already set up with the language. These days you mostly download the language from the internet and fuss around with installing it using DOS commands, etc. which are not always something the young folks know much about. Any book would be improved by a few pages on how to download, install and customize the language. At least this book went into detail on how to handle the IDE. Lots of them don't even do that.

although this isn't my favorite pascal book, it's a good textbook without any major flaws.

EDIT: pascal is a dead language. for a simple but useful language, try Delphi (based on pascl) or Visual Basic.