Starting with Delphi

[stuki]

Hello!

I'm new to programming, I told myself to start learning some because I've been thinking about it for about a year, so I took a chance and asked another forum and ended up here. I first thought that I should learn C++ but then the guy who refered me to this forum said that Delphi would be easier to start with. And i belive that once I've learned Delphi and Pascal that the step to C++ or C# wouldn't be so big.

So I would need some good lessons (perhaps video (noticed the sticky, will take a look on it later) or in text format), a good and easy program and some easy projects to start with.

Cheers

[arthurprs]

C++ and Opascal for me is the same thing only keywords change and a little os syntax, but i aways prefered Opascal mainly because de 10000xbetter syntax

links: Bookmark then =D

http://www.delphibasics.co.uk/
http://www.delcode.com/
http://delphigamedev.com/tutorials/
and of course http://www.pascalgamedevelopment.com/

I forget the link of a site of delphi videos ;/
vry good too

[WILL]

Hi stuki, welcome to PGD!

Since you a beginner to programming, you should be informed also that your programming efforts don't really need to lead away from Pascal, but some C knowledge does help these days. I'm sure that you'll find the Pascal and Object Pascal languages to be quite powerful and very useful these days.

All games showcases and discussed here are made with the Pascal language. I'll let that be a testament to it's ability.

Do try not to absorb too much misinformation about this wonderful language.

However since you are just starting out, I'd recommend learning Pascal first and move onto Object Oriented Programming and 'Object Pascal' a bit later.


Delphi is a good environment to start and so is Lazarus. There is a free solution for both.

Try both www.TurboExplorer.com and Lazarus.FreePascal.org websites.

[stuki]

Hi stuki, welcome to PGD!

Since you a beginner to programming, you should be informed also that your programming efforts don't really need to lead away from Pascal, but some C knowledge does help these days. I'm sure that you'll find the Pascal and Object Pascal languages to be quite powerful and very useful these days.

All games showcases and discussed here are made with the Pascal language. I'll let that be a testament to it's ability.

Do try not to absorb too much misinformation about this wonderful language.

However since you are just starting out, I'd recommend learning Pascal first and move onto Object Oriented Programming and 'Object Pascal' a bit later.


Delphi is a good environment to start and so is Lazarus. There is a free solution for both.

Try both www.TurboExplorer.com and Lazarus.FreePascal.org websites.

The thing with learning C is probably only for my resum?© .

Do they run in linux? I'm stuck with my linux computer right now.'

C++ and Opascal for me is the same thing only keywords change and a little os syntax, but i aways prefered Opascal mainly because de 10000xbetter syntax

]http://www.delphibasics.co.uk/[/url]
http://www.delcode.com/
http://delphigamedev.com/tutorials/
and of course http://www.pascalgamedevelopment.com/

I forget the link of a site of delphi videos ;/
vry good too

Thanks :thumbup:

[wodzu]

Do they run in linux? I'm stuck with my linux computer right now.'

FreePascal and Lazarus(IDE) runs on linux :-)

[WILL]

As far as I know (and have tried), Lazarus works and installs really well on most of the major distros of Linux. And has a Windows style installer, which helps for though newer to Linux from Win32.

[arthurprs]

http://fundelphi.org/

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