Turbo Pascal 7.0 (4th Edition) Subsequent Edition

Too bad the diskette is missing, but overall I'm happy with it

The book is more about how to write good code using Pascal. I needed more info on how to communicate with the COM port than writing code sp no 5 star.

This is the best programming text I have ever found and I have close to a dozen on various languages. This is the first I have seen that gets into debugging and how to use the debugger. It has the best examples and exercises I have yet found. Too bad Pascal is considered 'obsolete', but this book is also great for general programming and program planning. I'm going to try to find C++ books by the same guy. My only complaint about this (and most other books) is that they assume you are already set up with the language. These days you mostly download the language from the internet and fuss around with installing it using DOS commands, etc. which are not always something the young folks know much about. Any book would be improved by a few pages on how to download, install and customize the language. At least this book went into detail on how to handle the IDE. Lots of them don't even do that.

I bought the book because I am using Free Pascal. Most of the books on Pascal that are available nowadays, are very old. Perhaps back in the 90s, authors felt a need to explain things in excruciating detail. I find it a bit annoying, and have to skip read to get what I want to know.

I took classes on pascal in the 90's,it's fun,and not that hard to code in,it was my first computer language.

I will definitely be purchasing other books from this author. He has a very direct, and extremely clear way of explaining what would have otherwise been confusing principles.

although this isn't my favorite pascal book, it's a good textbook without any major flaws.EDIT: pascal is a dead language. for a simple but useful language, try Delphi (based on pascl) or Visual Basic.

Nice book, good material, but a little beat up. Covers the material well and has plenty of information about Turbo Pascal.