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From: atchison@hpindda.HP.COM (Lee Atchison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Re: MacUser compiler comparison
Message-ID: <6500020@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 88 22:37:41 GMT
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/ hpindda:comp.sys.mac / Lou@cup.portal.com /  7:50 pm  Feb 12, 1988 /
>Anyone have any experience with Borland's Turbo Tutor?

If what you are looking for is a book that teaches how to program in Pascal,
then go ahead and buy Turbo Tutor (however, you could probably do better with
another book that is cheaper).

If you already know how to program in Pascal, then don't waste your money.

The book spends well over half of the time covering basic Pascal topics.
The beginning is very simplistic view of computers ('this is a computer, it
is our friend' type of discussion).

When it finally does get into Mac specific information, it gives you nothing
spectacular.  I'd recommend spending your money instead on the books
'Macintosh Revealed' volumes I and II.  You'll save a lot of money, and get
more information.

BTW, you do get a disk of software and examples with the Turbo Tutor, but
it is nothing to sneeze at (a speed typing game, and not much else).

			-lee
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Lee Atchison
Hewlett Packard, Information Networks Division
atchison%hpindda@hplabs.hp.com