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PASCAL rules O.K.? A comparison of PASCAL and BASIC as languages for teaching computer programming to novices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2016

J.J. McGregor  and
A.H. Watt
J.J. McGregor
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, The University of Sheffield
A.H. Watt
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, The University of Sheffield
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PASCAL is becoming increasingly available on microcomputers—the type of computer most commonly found in schools. There are strong educational arguments for teaching novices a subset of the programming language PASCAL rather than BASIC. This article presents a comparison of these two languages at an introductory level.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 65 , Issue 433 , October 1981 , pp. 171 - 182
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1981

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Further reading

McGregor, J.J. and Watt, A. H., Simple PASCAL, Pitman (1981). Covers the subset of the PASCAL which might be used on an introductory course.Google Scholar
Atkinson, L. V., PASCAL Programming, Wiley (1980). A thorough coverage of the full PASCAL language, including all the advanced features.Google Scholar