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Programming in Macintosh and Think Pascal 1995

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Programming in Macintosh and THINK Pascal, second edition, is a 1995 textbook by Richard A. Rink, Vance B. Wisenbaker and Richard G. Vance, published by Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. ISBN 0-13-093873-4; Library of Congress QA76.8.M3R54 1995, card number 94-33685. It was sold with a disk.[1] The Library of Congress record gives the extent as xviii, 792 pages.[2]

It is an introductory Pascal textbook for either Apple's Macintosh Pascal or Symantec's THINK Pascal, elementary in Chapters 1 to 8 and intermediate in 9 to 14. Chapters 2, 8 and 13, new in this edition, are for THINK Pascal users: the project environment, units and libraries with the LightsBug debugger and profiling, and object-oriented programming. Readers using Macintosh Pascal are pointed to Chapters 1, 3-7, 9-12 and 14.[3]

Contents

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Page numbers are from the book's contents list.[4]

  • Preface, p. xv
  • Chapter 1: Introduction to Macintosh Pascal, p. 1
  • Chapter 2: Introduction to THINK Pascal, p. 30
  • Chapter 3: Constants, Variables, and Simple Input and Output, p. 60
  • Chapter 4: Basic Arithmetic Operations, Expressions, and Assignment Statements, p. 106
  • Chapter 5: Basic Control Instructions for Looping and Branching, p. 138
  • Chapter 6: Basic Graphic and Mouse Commands, p. 188
  • Chapter 7: Procedures and Functions, p. 250
  • Chapter 8: Modularity: Building Programmer-Defined Libraries, p. 338
  • Chapter 9: Structured Data Types, p. 391
  • Chapter 10: Files, p. 464
  • Chapter 11: Manipulation of Strings, p. 532
  • Chapter 12: Pointers, p. 573
  • Chapter 13: Object-Oriented Programming in THINK Pascal, p. 628
  • Chapter 14: QuickDraw Library, p. 674
  • Appendix A: THINK and Macintosh Pascal Reserved Words, p. 744
  • Appendix B: The Macintosh Character Set, p. 746
  • Appendix C: Introduction to the SANE Library, p. 748
  • Appendix D: Creating a Macintosh Pascal Application, p. 763
  • Appendix E: Using Labels and the Pascal Goto Statement, p. 767
  • Appendix F: References, p. 770
  • Index, p. 773

What this book does not contain

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It is a programming textbook. It has no service procedures, parts lists, schematics or electrical data; Apple's repair documentation is in Category:Apple Service Source. The hosted scan is 810 PDF pages including the covers; the disk is not included.

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Download: Programming_in_Macintosh_and_Think_Pascal_1995.pdf (50 MB)

References

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  1. ↑ Richard A. Rink, Vance B. Wisenbaker and Richard G. Vance, Programming in Macintosh and THINK Pascal, 2nd ed. (Prentice-Hall, 1995), cover and copyright page (PDF pp. 1, 3).
  2. ↑ Open Library, Programming in Macintosh and THINK Pascal, record OL1108363M, from Library of Congress catalogue data. Retrieved 2026-09-30.
  3. ↑ Rink, Wisenbaker and Vance, Programming in Macintosh and THINK Pascal, Preface, p. xv (PDF p. 12).
  4. ↑ Rink, Wisenbaker and Vance, Programming in Macintosh and THINK Pascal, Contents, pp. vii-xiii (PDF pp. 5-11).
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