Hi moonblade, welcome to PGD!
Well it's official; 2 Jason's agree, Delphi is an IDE. :thumbup:
I don't want to restate what has been accurately said before, but just a tad more info as to how this 'Delphi language' thing came up; When Borland made the move from DOS to Windows the Delphi IDE tool was launched. This was way back when OOP was new and magical mind you. The idea to call the Object Pascal language "Delphi" came a few years & versions of it's launch. Which is what caused all the naming confusion. 2 trains of thought; 1) name the language off of the compiler and 2) name the language of a published standard.
Incidentally, noone, not even Borland has had the new revisions of the Object Pascal language standardized. So this is why you'll hear this debate almost endlessly. :?
Barring that, it's an awesome language to code it! With the 3 top compilers; Free Pascal, Chrome and Delphi, you can write a game for a ton of platforms; Including Win32/64/CE, Linux, MacOSX, GBA, NDS and GP2X. Even, almost, XBox360.
Probably the best place to start is getting familiar with the 'Object' part of the language. If you already know the concepts then it shouldn't take too long at all, just a few differences in the way that C-based languages do it.
So you can really start where you'd like, provided you have the main language concepts down. I'd recommend having a look through our Articles section and also the Library where we keep a pretty decent list of material there. We are going to be adding a Books section soon, that should have a fair selection if you prefer a physical book.
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