This tutorial teaches the entire Pascal programming language. It is composed of 16 chapters which should be studied in order since topics are introduced in a logical order and build upon topics introduced in previous chapters. This tutorial contains a strong emphasis on object oriented programming and what it will do to improve the quality of your code. It is to the students benefit to download the source code for the example programs, then compile and execute each program as it is studied. The diligent student will modify the example program in some way, then recompile and execute it to see if he understands the material studied for that program. This will provide the student with valuable experience using his compiler.

The recommended method of study is to print the text for one or two chapters, download the example programs, and study the material by loading the example programs in the compiler's editor for viewing. Following successful completion of each chapter, additional chapters can be downloaded as progress is made.

Version 2.61 - September 29, 1996 - (Files restructured on March 16, 1997)

This tutorial is distributed as shareware which means that you do not have to pay to use it. However, the author spent a good deal of time and financial resources to develop this tutorial and requests that you share in the financial burden in a very small way, but only if you felt the tutorial was valuable to you as an aid in learning to program in Pascal. If you wish to remit a small payment to the author, full instructions for doing so will be given by clicking the link below. If you do not wish to remit any payment, please feel free to use the tutorial anyway. In either case, I hope you find programming in Pascal to be rewarding and profitable. I personally think it is the first language a new programmer should learn because of the excellent structure.

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Introduction - What is Pascal and why study it?

Chapter 1 - What is a computer program?

Chapter 2 - Getting Started in Pascal

Chapter 3 - The Simple Pascal Data Type

Chapter 4 - Pascal Loops and Control Structures

Chapter 5 - Pascal Procedures and Functions

Chapter 6 - Arrays, Types, Constants, and Labels

Chapter 7 - Strings and String Procedures

Chapter 8 - Scalars, Subranges, and Sets

Chapter 9 - Records

Chapter 10 - Standard Input/Output

Chapter 11 - Files

Chapter 12 - pointers and Dynamic Allocation

Chapter 13 - Units in Turbo Pascal

Chapter 14 - Encapsulation and Inheritance

Chapter 15 - Virtual Methods

Chapter 16 - Complete Example Programs

Download the HTML Documentation- (pashtm.zip) Download all of the above documents in one packed file. This file (about 128k) contains the 17 files listed above (plus the diagrams) which can be downloaded and unpacked for use locally. The content of this file is identical to the content of the above files. There are no executable files in this group of files.

Download the Source Code - (passrc.zip) Download all example programs. This file (about 57k) contains 97 source files which are all explained in the 16 chapters of text. There are no executable files in this group of files.

Download the Answers to Exercises- (pasans.zip) Download the authors answers to all of the programming exercises. This file (about 11k) contains 23 source files. There are no executable files in this group of files.

Download the pkunzip executable - (pkunzip.exe) Download pkunzip.exe version 2.04 to unzip the source code. This executable is pre-registered for your use in unzipping any Coronado Enterprises tutorial files. It will unpack and generate the zipped files in the current directory and all will be ASCII source code files. To unzip the source code files, execute the following DOS command;

     pkunzip passrc.zip

Or, to unzip the answers to programming exercises, execute the following DOS command;

     pkunzip pasans.zip