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XEROX Xerox Development Environment
Mesa Course
September 1988
610E00230
Xerox Corporation
Document ,'stems Business Unit
XDE Techlllcal Services
475 Oakritead Parkway
Sunnyvale, California 940~.
Introduction
The Mesa Course is a self-paced programming tutorial intended to give you hands-on
experience with applications and systems programming in the Xerox Development
Environment. The course introduces important concepts, illustrates those concepts with
extensive examples, and provides exercises to ensure your familiarity with those concepts.
The Mesa Course is intended for use at any XDE customer site.
The twenty one chapters of the Mesa Course are grouped into two major sections: the Mesa
Language and the "Tajo" development environment. The experienced professional need
only skim the Mesa Language chapters and can begin with serious study of the
development environment, referring to language issues in the first section as required.
The less experienced programmer should work through the material sequentially. The
initial section of the course is designed to present Mesa programming to someone who is
familiar with other structured languages, particularly Pascal, and has completed the
Introduction to XDE on-line tutorials.
The Mesa Language section introduces you to Mesa programming concepts and essential
components of the Xerox Development Environment. You will learn how to develop and
run programs in our environment, including how to: