Learn Pascal in a Three Days (2nd Ed.)
(Publisher: Wordware Publishing, Inc.)
Author(s):
ISBN: 1556225679
Publication Date: 07/01/97

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapter 1—HELLO Pascal

1-1 Your First Pascal Program

Comments

Program Heading

Syntax and Conventions

1-2 Displaying Text: WRITELN, WRITE

Drill 1-1

1-3 Crunching Numbers

Integers and Real Numbers

Drill 1-2

Evaluation of Arithmetic Expressions

Drill 1-3

1-4 Using Variables

Variable Declaration

The Assignment Statement

Drill 1-4

1-5 Named Constants

1-6 Type Conversion: ROUND, TRUNC

1-7 Reading from the Keyboard: READLN, READ

1-8 Formatting Output

Drill 1-5

Summary

Chapter 2—Language Elements

2-1 Standard Data Types and Functions

2-2 Numeric Data Types

Numeric Types in Turbo Pascal

2-3 Standard Arithmetic Functions

Example: The Power Function

Example: Grocery Store

Drill 2-1

Turbo Pascal Additional Functions

Drill 2-2

2-4 The Character Type: Char

Standard Functions for Characters

Strings in Standard Pascal

2-5 The STRING Type

Declaration of a STRING

The LENGTH of a STRING

2-6 The BOOLEAN Type

Simple BOOLEAN Expressions

Compound BOOLEAN Expressions

Turbo Pascal Operators

Drill 2-3

Precedence of Operators

Summary

Chapter 3—Decisions

3-1 Making Decisions

3-2 The Simple Decision: IF-THEN

Example: Pascal Credit Card

Using Blocks

Drill 3-1

3-3 The IF-ELSE-THEN Construct

Drill 3-2

3-4 The ELSE-IF Ladders

Example: A Character Tester

3-5 Nested Conditions

Example: Scores and Grades

Tips on the IF-ELSE Puzzles

Drill 3-3

3-6 The Multiple Choice: CASE

Example: A Vending Machine

Example: Number of Days in a Month

Drill 3-4

3-7 Unconditional Branching: GOTO

Repetition Loops

3-8 Turbo Pascal Features: EXIT, CASE-ELSE

Summary

Chapter 4—Loops

4-1 Looping

4-2 The FOR Loop

Example: Powers of Two

Drill 4-1

Example: The Average

4-3 Stepping Up and Stepping Down

Example: The Factorial

Drill 4-2

4-4 Nested Loops

Drill 4-3

4-5 The WHILE Loop

Drill 4-4

4-6 The REPEAT Loop

Drill 4-5

Summary

Chapter 5—Data Architecture

5-1 Ordinal Data Types

Enumerations

Subranges

Drill 5-1

5-2 The TYPE Section

Renaming TYPES

Naming User-Defined Types

Drill 5-2

5-3 Arrays As Data Structures

5-4 One-Dimensional Arrays

Example: Scores of One Student

Displaying Tabulated Results

Drill 5-3

Declaration of Arrays in the TYPE Section

Example: Sorting an Array

Drill 5-4

5-5 Two-Dimensional Arrays

Example: Scores of Students

Array Initialization

Drill 5-5

Summary

Chapter 6—Text Processing

6-1 Introduction

6-2 Tips on OUTPUT Statements

6-3 Tips on INPUT Statements

Using READLN for Numeric INPUT

Drill 6-1

Using READ for Numeric Input

Drill 6-2

Using READ for Character Input

Using READLN for Character Input

Input of Mixed Types

Example: Scrambling Letters

6-4 Reading a Line of Text: EOLN

Example: Character Counter

Drill 6-3

6-5 Reading a File of Text: EOF

Example: Frequency Counter

6-6 String Manipulation

Tips on String Input/Output

Example: Sorting Names

Drill 6-4

6-7 String Functions and Procedures

CONCAT

COPY

POS

DELETE

INSERT

Drill 6-5

Summary

Chapter 7—Program Architecture

7-1 Programs and Subprograms

7-2 Procedures

Procedure Definition

Passing Values to Procedures

Drill 7-1

Passing Back Values from Procedures

7-3 Global and Local Variables

Example: Sorting Procedure

7-4 Functions

Drill 7-2

7-5 Tips on the Scope of Variables

7-6 Recursion

Drill 7-3

Summary

Chapter 8—Sets and Records

8-1 Sets

8-2 Set Declaration and Assignment

Rules and Restrictions

8-3 Set Operators and Operations

Union

Intersection

Difference

Drill 8-1

Relational Operators

Drill 8-2

Example: Text Analyzer

8-4 Records

Record Declaration

Accessing Fields

The WITH Statement

8-5 Nesting Records

Drill 8-3

Summary

Chapter 9—Files and Applications

9-1 Data Files

9-2 Text Files

9-3 Reading a Text File

The File Variable

File Parameters

Opening a File for Input: RESET

Closing the File

File Input Procedures: READ, READLN

The EOF and EOLN Functions

Application 1: Disk-File Text Analyzer

9-4 Displaying a Text File

Reading a Text File as a Set of Strings

Reading Multiple Strings

9-5 Creating a Text File: REWRITE

The Output Procedures: WRITE, WRITELN

Drill 9-1

Application 2: Employee File

Drill 9-2

Application 3: Payroll

Drill 9-3

9-6 Non-Text Files

Application 4: Payroll System

Drill 9-4

Appending a File

Summary

Chapter 10—Using Variant Records

10-1 Variant Records

10-2 Example: Enhanced Payroll System

Drill 10-1

10-3 Deleting Records from the File

Drill 10-2

10-4 Updating Records

Drill 10-3

10-5 Enhance the Program Modularity

Suggestions

Summary

Chapter 11—Pointers and Linked Lists

11-1 Dynamic Memory Allocation

11-2 Pointers

Pointer Operations

Pointers to Records

Drill 11-1

Passing Pointers as Parameters

Drill 11-2

11-3 Linked Lists

List Declaration

Building a List

Reading a List

Example: A Linked List Demo

Storing Lists in Files

Reading Lists from Files

Drill 11-3

Example: A List of Records

Searching the List

Drill 11-4

Deleting Nodes from Lists

Summary

The Next Step