Before we study basic building blocks of the Pascal programming language, let us look a bare minimum Pascal program structure so that we can take it as a reference in upcoming chapters.

Standard Pascal is introduced in a series of subsets that we call PS/1, PS/2, PS/3, and so on. The PS stands for Pascal Subsets. The book is about structured programming and that is what we …

Statements: Pascal statement is an instruction or a group of instruction that causes the computer to carry out certain actions. Assign a data item to a variable (Assignment statement) Transfer …

It describes all Pascal constructs supported by Free Pascal, and lists all supported data types. It does not, however, give a detailed explanation of the Pascal language: it is not a tuto-rial.

This tutorial is an introduction to the Pascal simple, yet complete, introduction to the Pascal programming language. It covers all of the syntax of standard Pascal, including pointers.

CONTENTS PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS 1.1 PROGRAMS 1 1.2 STRUCTURE 3 1.3 AN INFORMAL INTRODUCTION TO PASCAL 5 1.4 COMPILATION AND EXECUTION 8 1.5 …

This reference guide is intended to quickly introduce users to Pascal language syntax with the aim to easily start programming microcontrollers along with other applications.