from the back cover:"Here's an intorductory guide that offers a ground-up aproach to Pascal for the Ibm pc--featuring complete coverage of the two most popular Pascal dialects, DOS Pascal and UCSD p-System Pascal! This comprehensive text includes many features specific to Pascal on the IBM PC illustrated in complete example programs, including graphics, sound, file handling, and more! Also includes numerous exercises and problems designed to reinforce basic concepts for your everyday reference use.I this book you will find:-a complete discussion of the fundamentals of Pascal, including input and output, looping constructs, arrays, procedures and functions, and more!-advanced-level information on program development, user-defined types, file-oriented I/O, and generation of sound and graphics!-documentation for all programs!"