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  1-10 of 39 Reviews about "Pascal (D.3.2...)": Date Reviewed
  Scientific Pascal (2nd ed.)
Flanders H., Birkhäuser Boston Inc., Cambridge, MA, 1996.  Type: Book (9780817637606)

The aim of this book is “to teach programming in Pascal to people in the hard sciences and technology.” The first four chapters introduce the Pascal language and some aspects of the MS-DOS operating system. The rema...

Jun 1 1997
  Programming in Macintosh and Think Pascal (2nd ed.)
Rink R., Wisenbaker V., Vance R., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1995.  Type: Book (9780130938732)

As is typical for a textbook, this book has small dense type, the information is dryly presented, and there are questions and exercises at the end of each chapter. None of these things detract from the subject of programming in Pascal ...

Apr 1 1996
  Structured programming in Turbo Pascal (2nd ed.)
Horn L., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1995.  Type: Book (9780133117219)

Horn has divided this book into 15 chapters and some 10 appendices and pseudo-appendices. The book has a floppy disk to reinforce learning, testing and debugging techniques, and time-out sections. Each chapter contains descriptive mate...

Mar 1 1996
  PASCAL: programming and problem solving (4th ed.)
Leestma S., Nyhoff L., Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., Indianapolis, IN, 1993.  Type: Book (9780023887314)

As far as conventional down-to-earth programming in Pascal is concerned, the material in this book is detailed and extensive. Standard Pascal is presented without missing even a single semicolon. Every chapter is accompanied by general...

Aug 1 1995
  Borland Pascal from square one
Duntemann J. (ed), Bantam Books, Inc., New York, NY, 1993.  Type: Book (9780679791560)

These are turbulent times in which to teach and to learn how computers are to be introduced. There are the curriculum recommendations published in Computing curricula 1991: report of the ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Curriculum Task Force [...

Jun 1 1995
  Pascal (4th ed.): problem solving and program design
Koffman E. (ed), Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 1994.  Type: Book (9780201527100)

The basic purpose of this edition is to offer a new and greatly improved text for the classroom. Diverse personal interviews with famous computer scientists show how their careers developed. The book also includes topical recommendatio...

Jun 1 1995
  Recollections about the development of Pascal
Wirth N. ACM SIGPLAN Notices 28(3): 333-342, 1993.  Type: Article

This delightful gem of a paper is both enjoyable and informative. Wirth discusses the history of Pascal with rare candor and a wry sense of humor. The origins of Pascal are rooted in meetings that took place in the mid-1960s on the ext...

Jun 1 1994
  Designing Pascal solutions
Clancy M., Linn M., Computer Science Press, Inc., New York, NY, 1992.  Type: Book (9780716782582)

The authors of this introduction to Pascal program development for a first course in computer science assert that “typical” CS1 texts neglect large, complex programs--the very programs that motivate the pro...

Jan 1 1994
  Pascal plus data structures, algorithms, and advanced programming (3rd ed.)
Dale N., Lilly S., D. C. Heath and Company, Lexington, MA, 1991.  Type: Book (9780669248302)

This third edition of a popular CS2 textbook is a marked improvement on the previous editions, as should be the case. The authors have included a significant amount of material on software engineering techniques. In addition, each of t...

Jan 1 1993
  Programming in Pascal
Riddle D., Dellen Publishing Co., San Francisco, CA, 1991.  Type: Book (9780023998157)

As stated in its preface, this book is designed to satisfy the requirements of the course CS1, “Introduction to Programming Methodology,” as given in the Curriculum ’84 guidelines of the Association for Co...

Dec 1 1992
 
 
 
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