Macintosh Pascal Illustrated 1985
Macintosh Pascal Illustrated: The Fear and Loathing Guide is a 1985 book by Scott Kronick, published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts (ISBN 0-201-11675-8).[1] The printed pages run to 338, the end of the index, after x pages of front matter. The Library of Congress record is the pre-publication entry and gives no page count.[2] The scan here is 328 PDF pages including the covers.
The book teaches Apple's Macintosh Pascal interpreter through a comic narrator, "Mr. Moss", and is dedicated to Andy Hertzfeld. Part 1 is a user's guide to the MacPascal environment; Part 2 teaches the language through short QuickDraw and Toolbox programs, with each chapter heading listing the keywords and routines it introduces; Part 3 is a reference, ending with "The Whiz Kid's Dictionary" of 164 Pascal, QuickDraw and Toolbox terms illustrated with 75 complete programs.[3]
Contents
[edit | edit source]Page numbers as printed in the contents.[3]
| Chapter | Title | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Part 1: Running MacPascal: The User's Guide | 3 | |
| 1 | Entering the Sewer with a Boy or Girl Mac | 7 |
| 2 | Low-Down, Cheating Computers | 17 |
| 3 | Don't Call It the Runs Menu | 27 |
| 4 | Macintosh Saves, Gretzky Scores on the Rebound | 35 |
| 5 | An Instant Cure for Premature Compilation | 45 |
| 6 | Observing: Different Pokes for Different Folks | 55 |
| Part 2: Programming with QuickDraw and the Toolbox: The Language Guide | 63 | |
| 7–28 | Twenty-two chapters, from "Zen Pascal: Everything You Know Is Wrong" (p. 67) to "Files for the Child in You" (p. 191) | 67–191 |
| Part 3: Referencing Macintosh Pascal: The Whiz Kid's Encyclopedic Guide | 201 | |
| a | New Frontiers, or Are We Having Fun Yet? | 205 |
| b | Pascal Structures | 207 |
| c | Macintosh Character Set | 211 |
| d | Printer Control Codes | 213 |
| e | Vocabulary and Symbols | 215 |
| f | The Whiz Kid's Dictionary | 219 |
| Index | 331 |
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]- Introduction To Macintosh Pascal 1985 (links here)
- Macintosh Pascal Carmony-Holliday 1985
- Macintosh Pascal Moll-Folsom 1985
- The First Book Of Macintosh Pascal 1985
Download: Macintosh_Pascal_Illustrated_1985.pdf (33.6 MB)
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Title and copyright pages of the scan (PDF pp. 3–4): copyright 1985 Addison-Wesley; second printing September 1985; ISBN 0-201-11675-8; CIP data 85-3907, call number QA76.8.M3K76 1985.
- ↑ Macintosh Pascal illustrated: the fear and loathing guide (OL3023624M), Open Library, from Library of Congress MARC data—link(accessed 2026-09-30)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Acknowledgements and Contents (PDF pp. 5–9).