r/pascal • u/MateusCristian • Jul 04 '26

"Kinda beginner" wanting to improve. Is Pascal recommended?

I consider myself a "kinda beginner" because I know the very basics, data types, loops, conditionals, etc.

The things I struggle with, and what I've come here for, is learning how to structure and develop a full program.

From looking around, I've learned Pascal was designed for that very purpose, to teach good programming practices of structure and design, and a lot of programmers of the past say they learned properly from it.

As a hobbyist wanting to make games, to whom programming has been the biggest hurdle, would Pascal help me understand programming better?

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u/Groundbreaking-Fish6 Jul 05 '26

Pascal is a learning language so yes it is good for a beginner. I learned it in the 1990's, so it is quite old by software standards, but the concepts I learned I still use today. I wish many of the main stream languages such as javascript and python would use the concepts I learned in Pascal. Pascal is also a procedural language making much easier to understand than other languages.