Macintosh Pascal Illustrated: The Fear and Loathing Guide

By Scott Kronick

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201116758
• ISBN13: 9780201116755
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Best "intro to programming" book ever

Scott Kronick had the misfortune to write the best book for first time programmers that just happened to be too specific to a single compiler. This book was a victim of the pace of computer change.This book conveys the spirit of programming artistry. From page 1, it soaks you in the gee-whiz giddy excitement of making a computer do fun things. In the course of introducing all the essentials of structured programming and the Macintosh toolbox, it conveys the glory and the agony of learning to be a god over the world inside your computer. Even better, it does so while promoting a sense of balance between hacker concerns and Real Life. For instance, this passage from his chapter on debugging:"The bomb lies. No error is serious... Mr. Moss defines a serious error as failing to ask for a telephone number in a chance meeting with a person you would like to date."Scott sprinkles the thoughts of his alter-ego, Mr. Moss, liberally throughout the book. Mr. Moss's experiences and wisdom are the source text for exerises in text display, saving and reading files. Even though the programming environment described is obsolete, the perspectives of Mr. Moss and the irreverent enthusiasm of Scott Kronick make this worth reading and owning.