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I started with Turbo Pascal, and as is often noted by others, I spent a lot of time with the book Borland shipped with the compiler.
by browningstreet 3y ago
I started with Turbo Pascal, and as is often noted by others, I spent a lot of time with the book Borland shipped with the compiler.
- randcraw 3y agoAnd Jeff Duntemann's outstanding "Complete Turbo Pascal".
- cylinder714 3y agoBy the way, the x86-64/AMD64 Linux edition of his assembly-language text just came out: https://www.contrapositivediary.com/?page_id=5070 https://www.contrapositivediary.com/?page_id=5070
- nxobject 3y agoI remember his x86 assembly book really well - I remember him first showing DEBUG.COM and I was like “what??? How is that possible???”
- janc_ 3y agoI still have a (translated) copy of that book!
- lioeters 3y agoTurbo Pascal was my first real programming language (after BASIC and a bit of 8086 assembly) in my pre-teen years, and I read the manual very thoroughly. It was fascinating to learn, even though much of it was over my head. I remember sitting at the living room table on many evenings, studying a stack of printed out source code. My task was to contribute to translating a bulletin board system called WWIV. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWIV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWIV I went on to study Turbo C, which came with a wonderfully informative manual also. That experience formed the foundation of my programming in the next decades (2~3).