What Was Your First (Not a "Hello World" Type) Delphi Application?
Monday July 6, 2009
in Delphi :: When you want to learn a new programming language you pick a book or find an online tutorial. The first project you will create would be a "hello world" type of application - such a program should be one of the simplest programs possible in a computer programming language.
After a few "hello world" programs, you would start building your fist non-trivial application.
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First Turbo Pascal (3/4) application: Calibration suite for devices that protect aircraft from guided missile homing systems. Talk about being thrown in the deep end!
First Delphi (1) application: Oracle front-end for Pharmaceutical industry (ODBC didn’t work properly with Oracle back then, Borland’s SQL-Links did, so we chose Delphi, not MS-C++)
@Ken: please add your 1st Delphi application here:
http://delphi.about.com/u/ua/beginners/your-first-non-trivial-hello-world-delphi-program.htm
My employer did the catalog fulfillment for Phillip/Morris (the stuff you got for mailing in points). The boss came to me and said they needed a program to track the postage for everything they were sending out for all of the brands. I said I “need” this new Delphi(1) software. The program took two weeks and worked like a charm for 5 years. Side note: I was never questioned on the need for development software ever again.
Using Delphi(1/2) in the EDI financial world, an “instrument transfer” translator. Verified data entry transactions were translated into mainframe-ready transactions and posted to a server. Then I wrote my “Hello World!” program