Macintosh Hands-On Pascal 1986
Macintosh Hands-On Pascal is a 1986 book by Ted G. Lewis and Abbas Birjandi, published by Wadsworth Publishing Company, Belmont, California (ISBN 0-534-06354-3).[1] The Library of Congress record gives xviii, 307 pages.[2] The scan here is 325 PDF pages including the covers.
The book is written for Apple's Macintosh Pascal, an interpreter, and is organised as eighteen hands-on sessions that start with the mouse and windows and end with sound and QuickDraw graphics. The appendices double as a Pascal reference: syntax diagrams, debugging, error messages and solutions to the session problems.[3]
Contents
[edit | edit source]Page numbers as printed in the contents.[4]
| Part | Title | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Preface | xiii | |
| Introduction | xv | |
| 1 | Getting Started | 1 |
| 2 | Entering, Running, and Saving a Pascal Program | 13 |
| 3 | The Structure of a Pascal Program | 27 |
| 4 | Integer, Real, and Char Expressions | 43 |
| 5 | What Is a Subprogram? | 53 |
| 6 | Choosing in Pascal | 63 |
| 7 | Iteration Using While, Repeat, and For | 81 |
| 8 | The Type Statement | 91 |
| 9 | Text Files and Printer Output | 99 |
| 10 | Arrays | 111 |
| 11 | String Processing | 123 |
| 12 | Data Structures Containing Records | 137 |
| 13 | Sets and Scalars | 151 |
| 14 | Random and Typed Files | 163 |
| 15 | More on Procedures and Functions | 175 |
| 16 | Pointers and Dynamic Data Structures | 193 |
| 17 | Music (Sound) | 213 |
| 18 | Graphics | 231 |
| A | An Overview of Pascal | 247 |
| B | Pascal Syntax Diagrams | 255 |
| C | Debugging Macintosh Pascal Programs | 271 |
| D | Error Messages | 275 |
| E | Selected Solutions to Session Problems | 281 |
| Index/Glossary | 299 |
It is a programming book and contains no hardware or service information. Apple's service manuals are in Category:Apple Service Source.
Related titles
[edit | edit source]These Macintosh Pascal books link here:
- Introduction To Macintosh Pascal 1985
- Macintosh Pascal Carmony-Holliday 1985
- Pascal for the Macintosh 1986
- Pascal Primer for the Macintosh 1985
- The First Book Of Macintosh Pascal 1985
Download: Macintosh_Hands-On_Pascal_1986.pdf (20.6 MB)
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Title and copyright pages of the scan (PDF pp. 3-4): copyright 1986 Wadsworth, Inc.; ISBN 0-534-06354-3; CIP data 85-20200, call number QA76.M3L49 1986.
- ↑ Macintosh hands-on Pascal (OL2539211M), Open Library, from Library of Congress MARC data—link(accessed 2026-09-30)
- ↑ Preface and Introduction, pp. xiii-xviii (PDF pp. 13-17).
- ↑ Contents, pp. v-xii (PDF pp. 5-12).