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This work provides an introduction to programming with Pascal and extends this to show how Borland Delphi is used to develop Microsoft Windows programs. It provides real life applications and splits into three main sections: Pascal programming, Pascal applications, and Delphi programming. Practical applications include: software interrupts, hardware interrupts, graphics, date and time, system commands, RS 232 and parallel ports. This work is intended for GNVQ, A Level, further and adult education, first year undergraduate students, and for professionals and computing enthusiasts. ... Read more

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Puzzles for You and Your PC
I can't speak for professional programmers, but Puzzled Programmers is a great book for us duffers in the programming world. It contains 15 puzzles of increasing difficulty, held together by a surprisingly interesting narrative about programmers and a tech writer at a Silicon Valley company in the 80's. The puzzles, which would be difficult, if not impossible, to solve by hand, are intended to be solved by computer. The puzzle for the reader is to write a program that solves the puzzle.

The book is a bit dated, having been written in 1987. The answers are given in Pascal, BASIC, and C. The benchmarks for run times are for an 8 Mhz CPU. But that doesn't matter. The challenge is in analysing the puzzle and developing an algorithm to solve it. How that algorithm gets fed to the computer is of secondary importance.

All but one of the puzzles deal with recreational number theory. For example, find the smallest integer that is the sum of two cubes in two different ways. The odd one out involves the computation of a probability. The solutions get progressively longer, but number 15 is only about a hundred lines of code in BASIC. Most are much shorter.

If you like puzzles and learned to program, but never get to do it, this books for you. ... Read more

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This book shows programmers new to the Macintosh how to use the powerful Toolbox, resources, and the Macintosh interface to create applications with the distinctive Macintosh look and feel, using examples in THINK PASCAL 3.0. ... Read more

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This book is very easy to read, especially for a tech guide.
The Macintosh Programming Primer is especially helpfull for making your Pascal programs shine with that certain "Mac" look.It goes into detail about how to do everything from Dialog Boxes in ResEdit to how to incorporate asynchronous sound into your program.It's saved my butt a few times on major high school products, and MUCH easier to read than THINK reference, or Inside Mac. The only short coming to this book is that it is a bit out of date.It only supports toolbox thingys that where in system 6 and below, though it does do a very good job explaining them and their history. ... Read more