I'm fairly new to programming. Can someone point to a good program
to use as a tutorial to learn Pascal?
Charles Stephenson wrote to All <=-
I'm fairly new to programming. Can someone point to a good
program to use as a tutorial to learn Pascal?
On 05-06-20 08:00, Dan Clough wrote to Charles Stephenson <=-
Charles Stephenson wrote to All <=-
I'm fairly new to programming. Can someone point to a good
program to use as a tutorial to learn Pascal?
Well, I don't know of a "program", but there are a million online
sites that you can learn from. Here's one:
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/pascal/index.htm
I'm fairly new to programming. Can someone point to a good program to
use as a tutorial to learn Pascal?
I'm fairly new to programming. Can someone point to a good program
to use as a tutorial to learn Pascal?
I do not want to start any flamewar. Just curios - why to learn
Pascal? (nowadays).
On 05-07-20 21:04, Karel Kral wrote to Charles Stephenson <=-
I do not want to start any flamewar. Just curios - why to learn Pascal? (nowadays).
I do not want to start any flamewar. Just curios - why to learn
Pascal? (nowadays).
To which, the obvious answer is "why not?" ;)
I do not want to start any flamewar. Just curios - why to learn
Pascal? (nowadays).
To which, the obvious answer is "why not?" ;)
If I check news there I can see hundreds of jobs offered. None of
them is like looking for Pascal Programmer.
Do take me wrong. I am big fan of Pascal (as this is nearly only
thing I can do).
I just wanted to know how this happened. Imagin - OK - I new - I
want to program something. How to start. <research> - and then
decide for Pascal.
On 05-08-20 08:04, Karel Kral wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
If I check news there I can see hundreds of jobs offered. None of them
is like looking for Pascal Programmer.
Do take me wrong. I am big fan of Pascal (as this is nearly only thing
I can do).
I just wanted to know how this happened. Imagin - OK - I new - I want
to program something. How to start. <research> - and then decide for Pascal.
i remember moving from (line number oriented) BASIC to Pascal and
ASM... the level of control and detail was great... many of the
keywords were the same or similar...
the main thing i like about pascal is that it doesn't hold the gun,
point it at your foot, and pull the trigger for you like some other languages do... pascal is a lot more structured than other
Some of us used to do Pascal years ago and want to re-learn. :) And I don't give a rat's arse about career in this context - I will never
vode for a career, no interest in doing so.
On 05-09-20 07:50, Karel Kral wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
Hello Tony!
08 May 20 19:47, you wrote to me:
Some of us used to do Pascal years ago and want to re-learn. :) And I don't give a rat's arse about career in this context - I will never
vode for a career, no interest in doing so.
Hobby is good.
If something is missing in Win for me, I simply program it ;-)
If something is missing in Win for me, I simply program it ;-)
I would like to be able to get b ack to then, these days, I've been
more of a Bash script hacker. :D
tutorial program? no, i'm not aware of any... but there is this...
https://wiki.freepascal.org/Contents
and on the FP-related mailing lists i saw where someone did have some tutorial type thing they were working on for the kids in their class to help teach them programming... i don't know if that's available or not... i read it some time in the last 2 or 3 months, i think... maybe a little longer...
Well, I don't know of a "program", but there are a million online
sites that you can learn from. Here's one:
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/pascal/index.htm
There are plenty of others just a google away.
I'm fairly new to programming. Can someone point to a good program
to use as a tutorial to learn Pascal?
I do not want to start any flamewar. Just curios - why to learn Pascal? (nowadays).
On 05-11-20 07:28, Karel Kral wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
I would like to be able to get b ack to then, these days, I've been
more of a Bash script hacker. :D
Similar here ;-) Why to even bother with perl/python - if it is
possible to do it in bash. Part time collegue wants to know something? grep log | awk | sed | cut and that it is. Ah, he needs that every
Sunday? crontab -e... But this I do not call "programming" ;-)
etc.) I know, there are KODI and similar things. But I needed something simple, knowing what it is doing, specific in certain fuctions.
Another example - I still remember one guy, who changed IO.SYS that
time, due to the fact that his harddrive had one head failing (to skip
bad sectors quickly). I know is different level, but one thing there is
in common. We needed it, we did it by ourselves.
I do not want to start any flamewar. Just curios - why to learn
Pascal? (nowadays).
why learn pascal? why learn C, BASIC, ASM, C++, C#, or even COBOL or FORTRAN? or maybe even some form of SQL/xBASE?
they're just languages and they do most all the same stuff... allow you to present an interface to exchange data of some type between entities...
EXACTLY! :) I think if I learn Pascal, it'll be a good bridge to learning other languages.
other languages.
they're just languages and they do most all the same stuff... allow
you to present an interface to exchange data of some type between
entities...
EXACTLY! :) I think if I learn Pascal, it'll be a good bridge to
learning other languages.
EXACTLY! :) I think if I learn Pascal, it'll be a good bridge to
learning other languages.
When I was starting out, most of the early CS classes were taught in Pascal. Later, we moved to C. Pascal was a much simpler language for teaching computer science concepts than a lower-level language, and it's ability to easily code quick hacks in it is bested only by BASIC or another interpeted language.
yep! plus pacal teaches you structured programming which will be very helpful when learning/using other languages... especially those that don't enforce structure which leads to them holding the gun for you, pointing it at your feet, and pulling the trigger all the while trying to be helpful ;)
I wouldn't bother starting with Pascal.
The critical thing when learning how to program is
really learning how to think algorithmically; to that
end, Pascal is an OK language (and was pretty good
when it was introduced) but it's become dated and
there's enough minutia that one has to keep track of
that, even as simple as it is, it can be difficult
to see the forest for the trees.
On 06-10-20 01:44, Charles Stephenson wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-
I started the basics of Pascal in my teens, and that's why I choose
Pascal over trying to learn 'C'. most that I talked to said if I could
get Pascal down, it would be easier to learn other languages.
'algorithmically thinking'. That was one of the key points of why I
wanted to learn Pascal. I figured it would do EXACTLY what you said 'Go' would do. lay down the blueprints for other languages. I'm saving this post for future ref.
This was VERY VERY helpful.
Thank you SO much.
As did I, and I was quite proficient in Pascal by the time I was 20. I was also incorporating 8086 assembler into my Pascal programs (there were a couple of ways of doing this with TP) and doing some low level DOS stuff that way.
Nowadays, I am at the whim of where my brain wants to go, and coding doesn't seem to be the place. I know I can do it, because I've done it before. :)
I remember seeing a few people doing that (actually
reading about it in FidoNet YEARS ago)
On 06-20-20 08:02, Charles Stephenson wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
On Jun 10th 8:38 am Tony Langdon said...
As did I, and I was quite proficient in Pascal by the time I was 20. I was also incorporating 8086 assembler into my Pascal programs (there were a couple of ways of doing this with TP) and doing some low level DOS
stuff that way.
I remember seeing a few people doing that (actually reading about it in FidoNet YEARS ago)
I've been wanting to get into modern programming for sometime now. I've haven't had the time or mind-frame to get back into it yet. I've seen
some pretty good looking online classes I've been thinking about doing too. Juts have to get my mind into it. Hard lately. Too many 'real
life' issues to deal with.
I remember seeing a few people doing that (actually
reading about it in FidoNet YEARS ago)
inline? I sometimes did it, that time.
btw, do you remember that virus which infected only .pas?
It was great time...
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