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? +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mark H. Granoff Member of the Technical Staff | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | USMAIL: The MITRE Corporation | ARPAnet: mhg @ mitre-bedford.ARPA | | Burlington Rd. | UUCP : linus!mbunix!mhg | | M/S B015 |-----------------------------------| | Bedford, MA 01730 | A T & T: (617) 271 - 7030 | +--------------------------- Disclaimer ------------------------------+ |The views expressed herein are my own and do not necessarily reflect | | those of my employer. | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
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