Learn Pascal in Three Days

Learn Pascal in Three Days, Third Edition provides the novice programmer with the fundamentals of the language and is ideal for those wanting a solid foundation in structured programming. This update of one of the best-selling introductions to Pascal is designed for beginning programmers with its chapter summaries, review questions, hands-on examples, and easy-to-follow drills. Readers start with simple programs and end up with useful real-world applications. Among the topics covered are building and evaluating arithmetic expressions, using structures and loops, creating arrays, manipulating text data, writing procedures and functions to make programs more modular, and declaring and using pointers. With this book, learn about the design of structured Pascal programs; problem-solving algorithms; simple and structured data types; variables, operators, and expressions; iteration, branching, and selection statements; pointers and linked lists; manipulating data files; real-life applications and solved drills.

Sam Abolrous is a software engineer with an extensive background in software design and programming development. He is currently a programming writer at Microsoft Corporation. He was the lead writer of the first two releases of the C# language reference and the J# language reference. He has published many articles in leading programming journals and has written over 52 books on computer science and programming languages ranging from C# to COBOL, including Learn Pascal in Three Days (Third Edition) from Wordware Publishing.