On Mon, 30 Aug 2021, wkitty42--- via fpc-pascal wrote:
On 8/30/21 8:52 AM, geneb via fpc-pascal wrote:
[*] For those not aware of him, Jeff Duntemann was a huge figure "back in
the
day" in Turbo/Borland Pascal circles. His books are phenomenal.
i have and still use several of his books...
On 8/30/21 8:52 AM, geneb via fpc-pascal wrote:
[*] For those not aware of him, Jeff Duntemann was a huge figure "back in the
day" in Turbo/Borland Pascal circles. His books are phenomenal.
i have and still use several of his books... i think the first one we got was
"Complete Turbo Pascal" -
> On Aug 27, 2021, at 4:01 PM, joseph turco via fpc-pascal
> wrote:
>
> I am a new programmer, and I thought I'd learn Pascal.
Good day Joseph,
Pascal is the language I was taught in 1986. I’m still using it.
First question to ask yourself is why and what do you need to program?
For myself,
I've forgotten to add the link to "Snap!" manual:
https://snap.berkeley.edu/snap/help/SnapManual.pdf
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May be something like "Snap!" ?
https://snap.berkeley.edu/snap/snap.html#present:Username=trev1315&ProjectName=plane%202&editMode&noRun
https://snap.berkeley.edu/project?user=trev1315&project=plane%202
On my own, I think starting with Lazarus and GUI apps would be far easier.
If you create a n
Here's a book that's aimed squarely at the non-programmer, and it's
written for FreePascal
http://www.copperwood.com/pub/FreePascalFromSquareOne.pdf
It's written by Jeff Duntemann[*] and is a free download.
Give it a look, while "unfinished" it will get you the knowledge you want.
g.
[*] Fo
I suggest this:
https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal_introduction.html
as far as I remember there isn't a single GUI element used anywhere,
it's all console/writeln, and it covers the "old style" (procedural)
approach Turbo Pascal had, as well as working with more recent concepts
like objec
