Table of Contents

* I. Introduction
o About the Author
o Origins of Pascal
* II. The Pascal Architecture
o Block Structure
o Style
o Manageability
* III. Pascal Standards
o Unextended Pascal
o Extended Pascal
o Object Pascal
* IV. Myths Uncovered
o Myth 1: C and Pascal Are Basically the Same Language
o Myth 2: Pascal is Limited in Power
o Myth 3: Pascal Has Weak String Handling Capabilities
o Myth 4: Pascal Does Not Support Object Oriented Programming

use Borland Pascal 7.0 for the code. If you using other compiler, say, Microsoft QuickPascal, you may do a slight modification. Still, you cannot review the Borland-specific lesson, like using BGI and so on. However, the concepts is all the same. Don't worry. I plan to divide the tutorial into 4 courses :

* Lesson 1 is all about the basics of Pascal.

Learn how to write your own program, debug it, and use it to start the microcontroller. We have provided plenty of practical examples with necessary connection schemes: temperature sensors, AD and DA converters, LCD and LED displays, relays, communications, and the book is constantly being updated with fresh examples. All code is commented in details to make it easier for beginners. Instruction set, operators, control structures, and other elements of PASCAL are thoroughly explained with many examples.

This tutorial teaches the entire Pascal programming language. It is composed of 16 chapters which should be studied in order since topics are introduced in a logical order and build upon topics introduced in previous chapters. This tutorial contains a strong emphasis on object oriented programming and what it will do to improve the quality of your code. It is to the students benefit to download the source code for the example programs, then compile and execute each program as it is studied.

This site offers write-ups of how to do specific
things in Delphi or Pascal. Feel free to use them in programming
courses, but a credit of the source would be appreciated. Speaking of
which... the following was a great help to my own programming:
'Borland Delphi How-To', from the Waite Group, by Frerking, Wallace
and Niddery, ISBN 1-57169-019-0. Its approach suited my needs, and
helped inspire the form of these tutorials: Most are a self-contained
explanations of how to accomplish a specific task, or use a particular
component of the language.