This book is mainly for teachers and students of Information Technology in high schools in preparation for external examinations in grade 11 or 5th form. It is also for persons who need an introduction to programming, using Pascal. It focuses on identifying basic Pascal principles and applying them to programming scenarios. As a result, a substantial portion of the book is like a manual or a specific guide. Many program examples may be typed into the TPW (Turbo Pascal for Windows) editor and executed.

Power tools. Programming pointers. Useful units. Designing the user interface. Expanding the possibilities. Using expanded memory. BIOS and DOS services. Memory-resident programming. Using the mouse. The program segment prefix. Using assembler with Turbo Pascal. Data-entry screens. Using the Borland toolboxes. The database toolbox. The graphic toolboox. The Turbo Pascal editor toolbox. Using the numerical methods toolbox. Overlays and debugging. The Turbo Pascal 5 user interface.