The material for this book first appeared in the magazine Personal
Computer World, as a series of articles which ran from September
1979 to June 1980. It was designed to appeal to a new (in 1979)
sort of reader the microcomputer enthusiast, both amateur and
professional about whom two assumptions were made. The first was
that the reader was someone who had already learned to program
(probably in BASIC) and who wanted to create programs in as
systematic and proficient a fashion as possible. The second was
that the reader would not be adverse to an occasional glimpse of
how the underlying machine played its part in executing these
programs. As a result of these, no attempt was made to teach the
"problem-solving" aspects of programming (although the Top-Down
philosophy for program design formed a key feature) and no apology
was made for the repeated references to the way in which a Pascal
compiler "viewed" some particular code fragment. In preparing this
material for publication as a single volume, there has been little
deviation from this policy. Nevertheless, it should be remarked
that the first five chapters contain all the material one would
need to cover in an initial course in programming (up to the level
of most BASIC's) while the second half of the book tackles some of
the more sophisticated techniques available to the Pascal
programmer.
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