[comp.lang.pascal] Learning Turbo

EKE4000%WYOCDC1.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.EDU (09/29/87)

HELLO NET!
      It's great to be hooked up.  Hope I can help you too, but I need help
now (if you can).  I am adept at PASCAL but I'm trying to find a better
source for learning the peculiarities of Borland's incarnation of the
beast.  The manual they supply (not the tutor) is full of general information
but I'd like a few more concrete examples that I can code and run myself.
Do you have any ideas about where I can get my hands on something like that?
In the same line, is the turbo Pascal tutor from Borland worth getting?

        thanx      Mike                EKE4000@WYOCDC1.CSD (BITNET)

mhg@mitre-bedford.arpa (09/30/87)

>      It's great to be hooked up.  Hope I can help you too, but I need help
>now (if you can).  I am adept at PASCAL but I'm trying to find a better
>source for learning the peculiarities of Borland's incarnation of the
>beast.  The manual they supply (not the tutor) is full of general information
>but I'd like a few more concrete examples that I can code and run myself.
>Do you have any ideas about where I can get my hands on something like that?
>In the same line, is the turbo Pascal tutor from Borland worth getting?

To the best of my knowledge, Turbo Pascal is a superset of 'standard'
Pascal.  If you want to know if something works in Turbo Pascal, try
it!  Even in TP's "crude" environment (compared to Borland's later
releases like Prolog), it's painless to write and compile a quickie
test program.

I would suggest looking in your local bookstore; there are several
books available now with titles along the lines of 'such-and-such for
Turbo Pascal'

I can't comment on Turbo Tutor, but if you already know Pascal, why
bother?

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kirsch@braggvax.arpa (09/30/87)

Mike,
There's LOTS of Turbo code all over the place in BBS's (and bunches in
archives at SIMTEL20 .. unfortunately an ARPAne host no longer accessible to
BITNET people, I understand). Suggest you sniff around local BBSs, find an
accessible FIDO (or OPUS or whatever it's called now) node, whatever, and
snarf some of the Turbo code lying about out there.  PC-BLUE public domain
disks also have tons of Turbo source, available from ACGNJ (Amateur Computer
Group of New Jersey) on floppies, and from other sources.  Also tons on the
PCSIG PD floppies (usually available via mail order for "nominal" charges).
Donno about the Turbo Pascal tutor from Borland .. never saw it run.  Did see
several other tutorial programs and text files around the Public Domain world,
but just started hacking myself when I got the Borland Turbo package.  Learned
from experience the peculiarities, advantages, disadvantages of Borland's code
myself and from other readings.
Good luck,
David Kirschbaum
Toad Hall
kirsch@braggvax.ARPA