[comp.lang.pascal] Good Pascal textbook wanted

ken@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson) (08/22/88)

What textbook would you suggest to a colleague of mine who has to teach
Pascal to a group of students in a Collece of Further Education (that
is, a college of a lower academic level than university or polytechnic)?
The students have access to IBM PC clone computers and are aged around
16 to 18 years.  The book had best be cheap, available in the U.K.  and
easy to read.  It need not cover particularly difficult features. 

Please E-mail to me and I'll pass your replies on.  My e-mail address is
really ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk, not what it says in the header (though that
will reach me eventually). 

Thanks
Ken Johnson

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m0p@k.cc.purdue.edu (S. Kulikowski) (08/26/88)

   '"a pascal intro text for 16-18 year-olds somewhere in England"'

  you  might  try to find Henry Ledengards (spelling uncertain) ELEMENTARY
PASCAL.  this came through intro courses a few years ago, so i don't  know
its  current  availability.   as  i  recall, there was a constant theme of
sherlock holmes running through cover to cover.   an  encyphering  problem
was,  obviously, one of the assignments.  this kind of textbook device was
too silly for college level (ACM CS-1), but i thought it  might  have  use
for younger readers.
                    stan


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