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Notes On Pascal Programming

The document provides an overview of Pascal programming including the program outline, declarations, comparisons to pseudocode, and descriptions of common programming constructs like loops, conditionals, and input/output. Key aspects of Pascal include using begin and end to bracket blocks of code, terminating statements with a semicolon, and using := for variable assignment rather than = for comparisons.

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Notes On Pascal Programming

The document provides an overview of Pascal programming including the program outline, declarations, comparisons to pseudocode, and descriptions of common programming constructs like loops, conditionals, and input/output. Key aspects of Pascal include using begin and end to bracket blocks of code, terminating statements with a semicolon, and using := for variable assignment rather than = for comparisons.

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Pascal Programming

Program Outline
{Author:

Date: COMMENTS

Description:

PROGRAM name_of_program; PROGRAM HEAD

USES

CRT;

CONST DECLARATION

VAR

BEGIN

STATEMENTS; BODY/ PROGRAM MAIN

END .

1
COMPARISON OF CODES
CODE TYPE PSEUDOCODE PASCAL
Constant Constant Const
Pi3.14 Pi=3.14;
Declare Variables Declare VAR
Num1, num2, num3 AS INTEGER Num1, num2 : Integer;

Array declaration DECLARE VAR


ARRAY name[5] AS STRING name: Array[1..5] OF STRING;

Initialization Sum 0 Begin


Sum:=0;
END.

Output PRINT” hello world” BEGIN


WRITELN(‘Hello world’);
WRITE (‘Hello world’);
END.

Input READ num BEGIN


READLN (num);
READ (num);
END.
Assignment Sumnum1+ num2 BEGIN
Sum:= num1+num2 ;
END.
BEGIN
FOR loop FOR counter ← 1 TO 10 DO FOR counter := 1 TO 10 DO
PRINT "Hello world!" WRITELN ('Hello world!');
ENDFOR END.

When there are multiple lines in


the construct, they are placed
between a begin and end;

BEGIN
FOR counter := 1 TO 10 DO
BEGIN
WRITELN ('Hello world!');
WRITELN ('Hello world2!');
END; //end of loop
END.

2
BEGIN
WHILE loop WHILE num <> 0 DO WHILE num <> 0 DO
sum ← sum + num sum := sum + num;
ENDWHILE END.

When there are multiple lines in


the construct, they are placed
between a begin and end;

BEGIN
REPEAT UNTIL REPEAT REPEAT
PRINT "Hello World" WRITELN ('Hello World');
X ← X +1 X := X + 1;
UNTIL X > 5 UNTIL X > 5;
END.

IF-THEN IF A > B THEN BEGIN


PRINT A IF A > B THEN
ENDIF WRITELN (B);
END.

When there are multiple lines in


the construct, they are placed
between a begin and end;

IF-THEN-ELSE IF A > B THEN BEGIN


PRINT A IF A >B THEN
ELSE WRITELN (A)
PRINT B ELSE
ENDIF WRITELN (B);

END.

NB. NO semi-colon before an


ELSE

When there are multiple lines in


the construct, they are placed
between a begin and end;

3
BEGIN
NESTED IF-THEN-ELSE IF age <= 3 THEN IF age <= 3 THEN
PRINT “hi” WRITELN (‘Hi’)
ELSE ELSE
IF age <= 10 THEN IF age <= 10 THEN
PRINT “ hello” WRITELN (‘Hi’)
ELSE ELSE
IF age <= 18 THEN IF age <= 18 THEN
PRINT “No” WRITELN (‘Hi’)
ELSE ELSE
PRINT “Yes” WRITELN (‘Hi’);
ENDIF
ENDIF NB. NO semi-colon before an
ENDIF ELSE

When there are multiple lines in


the construct, they are placed
between a begin and end;

SYMBOL PURPOSE
= Constant assignment or comparison in an if
statement
:= Assignment operator
; Terminates a line
. Terminates the program

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