The MacPascal Book 1985
The MacPascal Book is a Macintosh Pascal tutorial by Paul Goodman and Alan Zeldin, published by Brady Communications Company, Inc. (a Prentice-Hall publishing company), Bowie, Maryland, © 1985, ISBN 0-89303-644-7. The printed book has xviii + 333 pages.[1] It teaches Pascal with the MacPascal (Macintosh Pascal) interpreter, starting from general computer concepts and finishing with a complete checking-and-savings application. It is a different book from MacPascal Programming 1985, by Drew Berentes (TAB Books).
Contents
edit| Chapter | Page |
|---|---|
| 1. Computer concepts | 1 |
| 2. Using MacPascal | 7 |
| 3. Pascal fundamentals | 19 |
| 4. Pascal structures (including an introduction to graphics, p. 71) | 47 |
| 5. Debugging a MacPascal program | 77 |
| 6. More on data types | 85 |
| 7. Procedures | 103 |
| 8. Arrays and strings | 125 |
| 9. More on structures | 151 |
| 10. A formal look at graphics | 185 |
| 11. Files | 213 |
| 12. Variant records and pointers | 233 |
| 13. A look at an application: the checking and savings program | 243 |
| Appendices A-L | 267 |
| Index | 327 |
The appendices are: A, selected exercise answers; B, menu summary; C, documenting a program; D, sound and music (p. 284); E, differences between MacPascal and UCSD Pascal (p. 289); F, reserved words; G, syntax diagrams (p. 293); H, QuickDraw routines (p. 308); I, SANE functions and procedures (p. 314); J, MacPascal error messages (p. 317); K, bibliography; L, the Macintosh character set (p. 325).
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References
edit- ↑ Open Library, ISBN 0-89303-644-7 (retrieved 2026-10-01): "xviii, 333 p."