Scientific Pascal
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Scientific Pascal
Birkhäuser, c1996
2nd ed
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Includes index
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: us ISBN 9780817637606
Description
Guide to this Book My main objective is to teach programming in Pascal to people in the hard sciences and technology, who don't have much patience with the standard textbooks with their lengthy, pedantic approach, and their many examples of no interest to scientists and engineers. Another objective is to present many both interesting and useful algorithms and programs. A secondary objective is to explain how to cope with various features of the PC hardware. Pascal really is a wonderful programming language. It is easy to learn and to remember, and it has unrivalled clarity. You get serious results in short order. How should you read this book? Maybe backwards is the answer. If you are just starting with the Borland Pascal package, you must begin with Appendix 1, The Borland Pascal Package. If you are a Pascal user already, still you should skim over Appendix 1. Appendix 2, On Programming, has material on saving programming time and on debugging that might be useful for reference. Chapter 1, Introduction to Pascal, will hardly be read by the experienced Pascal programmer (unless he or she has not used units). Chapter 2, Programming Basics, begins to sample deeper waters, and I hope everyone will find something interesting there. Chapter 3, Files, Records, Pointers, is the final chapter to concentrate on the Pascal programming language; the remaining chapters concentrate on various areas of application.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction to Pascal.- 2 Programming Basics.- 3 Advanced Programming.- 4 DOS and BIOS.- 5 Graphics.- 6 Recursive Algorithms.- 7 More Algorithms.- 8 Discrete Mathematics.- 9 Applications to Mathematical Analysis.
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: gw ISBN 9783764337605
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The Pascal programming language was designed for the needs of students and teachers. It is a widely used programming language for instruction in programming, algorithms and problem solving. Its block structure makes it useful for learning programming and scientific problem solving simultaneously. This text illustrates and applies every aspect of Pascal (including graphics, DOS, BIOS and mouse programming) through worked examples and exercises taken from the numerical analysis and algorithm literature. All of the book's programs have been tested, and are listed in a clear format emphasizing their structure. The book includes a diskette with all of the programs and units printed in the text, answers to exercises, additional programs and useful data files. The programs are written for the Borland Pascal compiler on the MS-DOS platform.
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