A simple, hands-on guide to Turbo Pascal 6.0. This step-by-step self-teachingguide walks new programmers through the entire Pascal 6.0 environment.

In their revision of this book, the authors make the connection between problem-solving skills and effective software development using their five-step problem-solving process. This new, streamlined edition maintains all the features of previous versions and places an emphasis on problem solving, data abstractions and software engineering methods. New features include: interviews with renowned computer scientists, providing insights into the career applications of Pascal and computer science; 30% extra exercises and programming projects; a new design to make it easier to help students focus on essential topics.

Featuring over 130 concise and easy-to-enter program examples, users will learn to write simple and complex programs; create data types and files; simplify complex programs; use pointers, memory management techniques, single and muliti-way lists and trees; employ advanced pascal programming techniques; and create string operations.