Professional development seminars: Introduction to Pascal

Abstract

This intensive one-day tutorital introduces the concepts and abstractions upon which Pascal is based, current methods for specifying the syntax of a language, Pascal's relation to software engineering, and the status of the Pascal standardization activity. A multimedia environment is used to develop Pascal programs on-line. At the end of the session, participants should be able to read and analyze Pascal code, differentiate between “true Pascal” and non-conforming Pascal-like code, and have a working knowledge of the syntactic definitions of Pascal: BNF, railroad diagrams, and a Pascal standard.