Learning Pascal can be fun -- and fast. This highly original step-by-step primer uses new Sherlock Holmes stories as a teaching tool. The computer programs sift through clues and unravel puzzles, while Holmes instructs Watson -- and the reader -- in a way that illuminates the mysteries of computer programming. The book's detailed examples and programs enable the reader to follow each problem on his own computer and to reach for himself Holmes's often surprising conclusions.
This entertaining manual on how to program your computer in Pascal proves that computer programming needn't be a mystery.

Learning to program your computer in Pascal with Sherlock Holmes. The problem with the whole series is that they were written about 20 years too late and are now even 20 years more out of date. Although both Pascal and Basic are still used as programming languages, both are used in entirely different forms than are illustrated in these books. The basic information about computers and how they work and are used is also correct, but quite remote from current practice and usage... These books are interesting and fun to read but of no particular practical use. As historical examples, they are probably worth the shelf space they occupy since they are paperback and not hard cover editions. [Philip K. Jones, 2003]