Hello!
"HELLO WORLD"
Pascal tutorial #1: By Matt Miller
God, I'm sure any newcomers to Pascal will recognize this immediately. The standard and played out "Hello World" tutorial. As much as it is used, it is most necessary to fully grasp many fundamentals of this program. Now allow myself to introduce...myself. My name is Matt Miller, a student attending a high school somewhere in the known world. In my freshmen year, I took a Pascal class- hardly seemed par in teaching the basics, so I researched and taught myself. Same with QBasic, which I stumbled upon while using my laptop I purchased at a yard sale. I am currently teaching myself more C++ than anything right now.
Anyway, let's begin. Pascal is a procedural programming language. This means computer programs revolve around procedural subroutines in Pascal. It is not very object-oriented, like in C++ and C, Java, etc., however it is a necessary learning language to begin with. It is very similiar to Delphi.
These tutorials require Dev Pascal. Dev-Pascal is a full-featured integrated development environment (IDE), which is able to create Windows or console-based Pascal programs using the Free Pascal or GNU Pascal compilers.Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
You may download Dev Pascal, C++ at www.bloodshed.net.
When inside Dev Pascal, create a new program. *NOTE* This tutorial is not on how to fully open and create Dev Pascal source code projects. In this new program, you will type the following code:
program hello_world(input, output);
begin
writeln("Hello world");
readln;
end.
Hello world
So what does all this code mean? Well, most of this code is necessary and is the structural procedure in every Pascal program. Let's analyze:
program hello_world(input,output);
The word program is part of the program header in Pascal.
