Designing Pascal Solutions

DesigningPascalSolutions by Michael J. Clancy and Marcia C. Linn. W. H. Freeman and Company, 1992.

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This is supposedly a book of case studies that is suitable for intro programmers learning Pascal. In fact, it is probably the first book of software patterns. Clancy and Linn call them templates, but their template appendix looks a lot like a pattern catalog. The patterns are all the low-level patterns that people learn in their first programming course. The list (in the order they are taught) is

Prompt, Then Read
Input, Process, Output
Input One, Process One
Do Something a Specified Number of Times
Select from Alternatives
Input and Process Until Done
Process in Cycles
Accumulate Values Until Done
Fill an Array
Process Every Element of a One-dimensional Array
Search a One-dimensional Array
Insert Into a One-dimensional Array
Copy a One-dimensional Array
Insert While Copying a One-dimensional Array
Process Elements in a File Until Done
Insert Into a File
Process Elements in a Two-dimensional Array Until Done
Process the Diagonal of a Two-dimensional Array
Read Forward, Process Backward
Divide and Process Elements

-RalphJohnson

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