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From: roth@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Roth)
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Subject: Re: PASCAL Training Materials??
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I have used

    DBCooper, OH! PASCAL!, W. W. Norton Co., 2nd (or later) edition, 1985.

as a text for teaching Pascal & found it very effective. Depending on the
experience of your gang, I expect that Cooper's book CANNED PASCAL might be
more help, since it's shorter and spends more time on syntax than on "how
to program". Cooper is at Univ Cal at Berkeley, so you might want to give
him a call.

I also recommend anything written by Niklaus Wirth. His texts include
SYSTEMATIC PROGRAMMING: AN INTRODUCTION, and ALGORITHMS + DATA STRUCTURES =
PROGRAMS. The latter has the best discussion of recursive programming I've
seen, with several great examples.

TP6.0 gives you Objects, which you will want to use.
I had (have) a hard time understanding the Borland documentation.

Therefore, I recommend that you also buy TurboPower's
OBJECT PROFESSIONAL package at approx $150. Three _big_ manuals, and you
get the *source code* to menu systems, pick lists, entry fields,
printer control, etc., etc. It is NOT completely compatible with TurboVision,
but its object oriented educational content alone is worth the price.
Their address: POBox 66747, Scotts Valley CA 95066 Phone 408-438-8608
and CIS address is 76004,2611.

Keep a diary during this change-over. It'll make fascinating reading
in about 2 years; publishing it might help others contemplating this
kind of thing.

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Peter N Roth      roth@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil
Objects in this office are closer than they appear.