Leland Beck"s Pascal: A Guided Tour, takes a different and fresh perspective to teaching programming by using example-based teaching. A set of realistic, yet understandable, programs captures and holds the interest of the reader. Students learn how to program by first reading, modifying, and experimenting with these example programs. As they do this, they see advantages of program modularity, documentation and good programming style. Exercises in the text maneuver students to progress from reading and modifying programs to writing complete programs of their own. Ultimately, this approach gives the student a "guided tour" of the programming process and the Pascal language. The student learns not only how programming techniques and language features work, but also why these techniques and features are useful in forming a program. Features *Features example-based teaching. Students will be taught how to program by reading, modifying, and experimenting with completed programs before they begin to write their own. *The appendix contains a Pascal Reference section that summarizes the rules and statements of the Pascal language.* Includes excellent exercises, end-of-chapter review questions, programming projects and boxed sections to emphasize the programming concepts. 0201578395B04062001