These notes can be purchased in the Student Union Copy Center at cost
Records in Pascal (Leestma & Nyhoff Section 12.1, 12.2 & 12.3).
You may also wish to read through Section 12.4 for a large example that
illustrates how to create and use an array of records. [PowerPoint]
[Acrobat: 2 slides/page] [Acrobat:
6 slides/page]
Optional teaching material
Variant records: An interesting characteristic of Pascal data structures
that allow the type and number of fields to change during program execution.
Background / Sources of additional information
Pascal Programming and Problem Solving by Leestma S. and Nyhoff L. 4th
Edition (MacMillan Publishing Company).
Pascal an Introduction to the Art and Science of Programming by Savitch
W.J. (The Benjamin / Cummings Publishing Co., Inc.).
The
Pascal link under the
GNU website (since the U of C Computer Science department uses the GNU Pascal compiler gpc).