Mastering Turbo Pascal 5 is a fast and efficient programming environment, designed for developing, testing, compiling, and debugging programs, and for creating stand-alone applications that can be performed directly from DOS. For a wide range of experience levels.

This newly revised text includes all of the valuable information from previous editions as well as features in release 5.5. Three subjects dominate the new additions to the book: how to take advantage of Turbo PASCAL's new object-oriented extensions; how to create overlay modules that load automatically from disk as needed; and how to use the built-in Turbo Debugger.

This step-by-step guide to the newest Turbo Pascal release takes readers from programming basics to advnaced techniques such as graphics, recursion, object-oriented programming, and more. Includes dozens of useful exercises and tips for effective programming.

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.

The book provides an introduction to programming with Pascal and extends this to show how Borland Delphi is used to development Microsoft Windows programs. It is packed full of real-life application and splits into three main sections: - Pascal programming - Pascal applications - Delphi programming Practical applications include: software interrupts, hardware interrupts, graphics, date and time, system commands, RS-232 and parallel ports.

Provides readers with a thorough introduction to the language and its capabilities. For both programmers new to QuickPASCAL and object-oriented programming, the book serves as well for those who want a general reference to the language.