Pascal: A Guided Tour - Softcover

Beck, Leland L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201578395 ISBN 13: 9780201578393

Publisher: Pearson, 1993

Synopsis

Leland Beck's Pascal: A Guided Tour, takes a different and fresh perspective to teaching programming by using example-based teaching. A set of realistic, yet understandable, programs captures and holds the interest of the reader. Students learn how to program by first reading, modifying, and experimenting with these example programs. As they do this, they see advantages of program modularity, documentation and good programming style. Exercises in the text maneuver students to progress from reading and modifying programs to writing complete programs of their own. Ultimately, this approach gives the student a "guided tour" of the programming process and the Pascal language. The student learns not only how programming techniques and language features work, but also why these techniques and features are useful in forming a program. Features *Features example-based teaching. Students will be taught how to program by reading, modifying, and experimenting with completed programs before they begin to write their own. *The appendix contains a Pascal Reference section that summarizes the rules and statements of the Pascal language.* Includes excellent exercises, end-of-chapter review questions, programming projects and boxed sections to emphasize the programming concepts. 0201578395B04062001

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About the Author

Leland L. Beck is a Professor of Mathematical Sciences and the Coordinator of the Computer Science Program at San Diego State University. Dr. Beck received his Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics/Physics from Rice University, and his Masters and Doctorate degrees in Systems Engineering and Computer Science from Southern Methodist University. His research interests include computer security, operating systems and software engineering. Professor Beck is also the author of System Software: An Introduction to Systems Programming.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0201578395
• ISBN 13: 9780201578393
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 462