Turbo PASCAL - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201527375 ISBN 13: 9780201527377

Synopsis

This bestselling Turbo Pascal book now features coverage of the latest version of Turbo Pascal 7.0. The new edition has been reorganized to make it easier to use; all loop mechanisms are now covered in the same chapter, and functions are now covered with procedures. The book also emphasizes the software development method and reusability.

About this title

From the Back Cover

"By tapping into studentsi enthusiasm about the Web, this update will excite students as well as give them a strong introduction to programming. This new coverage explains the workings of the Internet and teaches students how to harness its information."
Elliot Koffman

Elliot Koffman's Turbo Pascal is a classic, proven introduction to programming and problem solving. Now, this special update of the fifth edition incorporates the exciting world of the Internet into your Introductory Programming course. In addition to a new chapter on the Internet and the World Wide Web, all of the code previously found on an accompanying disk is now located on the book's website. By having students use the website throughout the course, the book will help students become more comfortable using the Web for classwork and for their own interests. The rest of the text contains the same careful and thorough coverage of the topics found in the first course in programming plus many second semester topics.

Hallmark Features

• Conveys the relationship between problem-solving skills and effective software development by using the authoris classic five-step problem solving process.
• Covers computer graphics in Chapter 3, and provides examples of animation and user interfaces in later chapters to help motivate students.
• Introduces abstract data types and units in Chapter 9, and Turbo Pascal objects and object-oriented programming in Chapter 13. This coverage prepares students to study other languages which use the object-oriented paradigm.
• Reinforces key concepts with proven pedagogical features like programming style sections, syntax displays, end-of-section and end-of-chapter exercises, and more.

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About the Author

Elliot Koffman is a professor of computer and information science at Temple University. He is one of the country's foremost CS educators, a former chairman of the ACM Task Force for introductory programming methods courses, and author of a number of successful language texts in Modula-2, FORTRAN, in addition to his four editions of Pascal and Turbo Pascal.

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Edition details

• ISBN 10: 0201527375
• ISBN 13: 9780201527377
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English