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.

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 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.

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.

Now in its fourth edition, the book covers the newest release of the popular programming language, Turbo Pascal. No other book on Pascal programming includes as many working examples of real Pascal code in action. The book offers comprehensive coverage of the new features of Turbo Pascal and updates existing material to reflect the current state of the art in Turbo Pascal programming.