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What type of applications are you building with Delphi? What was the most complex lesson you had to learn and how did you learn it?
Do you remember when you started programming in Delphi? Was that 10 or 2 years ago? What were the most complicated aspects of the Delphi language? What tutorials / topics were, so to say, missing?
Share Your Story: What Were the "Missing Tutorials" When You Started With Delphi?
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Hi,
. The object pascal was really good and I find the base of C# or .net built on same lines. Nothing was impossible in delphi. Right from machine code ASM to visual interfaces.
Delphi was the most intuitive RAD tool I had come across my life. It gave me a career in I.T. I started with delphi 2 (1996/97) , then went on with 3,4,5,6,7. Mean time came the age of dot Net. I could hardly find job with delphi shifted to dot net got bored went into consulting. But never forgot delphi. I got any programming opportunity, I made it delphi
Well I start with delphi 7 in 2004 becouse a friend of mine…. Delphi is awesome… I never has a problem and when i get lost i come to delphi.about.com so all come clear again… for me is the best RAD I ever see.
I started programming again about 4 years ago, with a copy of Delphi 7 personnal on a magazine cover disk. I had done a lot of programming when I was young,(Z80/6502 ASM, Basic, Pascal) but nothing very much after that.
Regarding missing tutorials, the one thing I had trouble finding out was how to use ‘reference to procedure’ in a unit, so that the unit could be reused in another program without alteration, i.e so that the unit could generate ‘events’ that the main program could assign to it’s internal procedures, without going all the way to making it a component.
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I love delphi, more fast in compiling as any other compiler like C++. Pascal forces people to write more clear code. Dirty C++ code will nobody understand except the author within a few moments of writing that guru code.
Around ‘94 I learned about the upcoming Delphi 1.0 in the IT news papers. I got very excited about it because I learned to program at school in Turbo Pascal 3.0, back in the good old MS-DOS days.
What I was most excited about is that Delphi was object oriented from ground up. The strict syntax validation allowed nearly bullet free coding to be delivered in Delphi.
The things I learned in Delphi 1.0 are still the concepts you see today in Delphi 2010! The name Delphi refers back to greek Architecture. It is the only programming languages that deserves such a name!
Thanks Philippe Kahn and all other great developers that made it possible!
Rob de Leeuw, Netherlands
Absolutely and positive Marco Cantu is the best programming author I’ve known. I have just read his Mastering Delphi 6 from page 1 and invested every single minute practicing. Then I started solving needs of my daily job, designing and programming real world applications, like a backup engine, and a email sender win32 service, for what Zarco Gajic’s About Delphi web site has proven to be one of the best resources ever. And that’s pretty much my history.