what was your first pascal book?

[dseligo]

Picture says it all !
Davo

You didn't return it to room 371?

[dbannon]

You didn't return it to room 371?

That was my room back then, does not exist now !

Davo

[RayoGlauco]

My first book was "From Basic to Pascal" (1982) by Ronald W. Anderson. I was 15 or 16 years old, then.

First, I learned Basic from a school textbook of my brother. Then I learned to program in ASM, assembling the instructions by hand by joining groups of bits, using a Sharp computer reference book, and then I found this Pascal book.

[RayoGlauco]

A Sharp computer, from 1983 

[Thaddy]

First "book" was the online help of Turbo Pascal 7.0, eventually followed by the books and online help that came with Delphi 5.

Both of those did not exist. TP/BP7 not at all, D5 Partially and only for insiders. Only the Delphi1 era had more serious modern connections and that may have partially been  the case for BP7.
When I worked for Borland the "online" connection was still over a 300/1200/2400 Baud modem and quite expensive. (two guilders a minute from NL to US)

[MarkMLl]

Jensen & Wirth edition 2.

MarkMLl

[Josh]

Introduction to Pascal Rodnay Zaks, cant remember if it was 1st or 2nd edition.
Bought it even before I used Pascal which was first on a BBC Torch running CPN

[BSaidus]

I have discovered Delphi in 2006, while helping a colleague correcting a bug in Abbrevia library.
I was a C/C++ programmer & use often C++Builder (C++,delphi clone).
I was very impressionated by the simplicity & clearness of the code.
Since then, I stuck to Delphi, then Lazarus.
Now, in work, we use delphi, but in my home time, diffidently FPC/Lazarus.

The first books in delphi I read (simultaniosely):
   - Borland® Delphi™ 6 Developer's Guide by Steve Teixeira, Xavier Pacheco.
   - Developing Custom Delphi 3 Components by Ray konopka.
   - Object pascal language guide (Borland).

[Weiss]

Mine was Turbo Pascal 6 by O'Brien. It was the only book on Pascal available in Vancouver Public Library, central branch. 2 million people megapolis, and onIy one obscure book, from ancient times.

I think documentation, and wiki pages with examlles is the most valuable source of information. The other one is this forum, truly indispensable resource.