A comprehensive introduction to the CS1 and CS2 sequence, this text uses standard Pascal throughout, with a Turbo Pascal appendix page-referenced to specific examples. The text meets A.C.M. guidelines for CS1 and CS2, including complete coverage of structured programming and problem solving, as well as advanced programming techniques like using abstract data types, trees, stacks, and queues. Features patient development of procedures and parameters after loops and conditional statements.

For sophomore/junior-level courses in Data Structures. This volume explores top-down structured problem solving, the process of data abstraction and structuring, and the comparative study of algorithms as fundamental tools of program design.

Rather than taking the more traditional "procedural" approach, the authors take an object-oriented approach from the start to teach introductory programming concepts. Focusing on effective use of objects, they concentrate on building programs from an object library, reusing the objects, and developing classes and methods.