Yep, the holidays are over. It is the "Back to school with more Delphi knowledge" time. The time for businesses as one of the busiest seasons of the year. The time for students as they meet up with old and new friends and get equipped with the tools that will help them get through the hectic academic year. The time for teachers preparing lessons and materials that challenge students to learn. Inside this article you'll find ideas and resources to help parents, students, and teachers prepare for the new school year.
Free Online Courses for students, teachers, parents
A Beginner’s Guide to Delphi Programming
This free online course is perfect for beginner developers as well as for those who want a broad overview of the art of programming with Borland Delphi.
Developers will learn how to design, develop and test application using Borland Delphi. The chapters will cover the fundamental elements of creating Windows applications using Delphi, including the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and the Object Pascal language.
Developers will get up to speed quickly through real world, practical examples.
This course is aimed to those who are new to programming, come from some other development environment (like MS Visual Basic, or Java) or are new to Delphi.
A Beginner’s Guide to Delphi Database Programming with ADO
This free online course is perfect for Delphi database beginners as well as for those who want a broad overview of the art of database programming with Delphi.
Developers will learn how to design, develop and test a database application using ADO with Delphi. This course focuses on the most common uses of ADO in a Delphi application: Connecting to a database using TADOConnection, work with Tables and Queries, handle database exception, create reports, etc.
Quizzes, Tests and Trivia for students, parents
Quizzes, Tests and Trivia in Delphi Programming
Test your Delphi Programming skills and have some fun with these quizzes. Learn from your mistakes!
Ever wonder what "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" might look like if there were only general Delphi programming questions? Take the quiz and find out how you would do....
Explore Delphi Code Puzzles - the place where you compete against yourself and the Delphi compiler for fame and glory. Your task is to solve Delphi Code Puzzle by assembling a program code one line at a time...
Math and Science for students, teachers
Math with Delphi
Find about mathematics, statistics, numerical methods, complex numbers and more. Articles, tutorials, VCL and more. Add evaluation of mathematical expressions to your applications, quickly and easily. Explore the library of functions used for creating mathematical, financial, and scientific applications. Sample Delphi projects are included. Find out Delphi Math unit, Floating-Point Numbers, IEEE Math. Math Questions, Delphi Math Tips and Tricks.
Books for students, teachers
Online and sample chapters
Learn Delphi from online books and sample chapters. "Essential Delphi" - an online Book from the author of Essential Pascal. Great for beginners. "Essential Pascal" - this detailed and in depth online book on Pascal is everything you need to get started. "Pascal for Delphi Programmers" - just as the title says "Pascal for Delphi Programmers". "Teach Yourself Borland Delphi in 21 Days".
Book Reviews
Before you decide what book to buy, explore a list of Delphi programming books with expert reviews.
General Delphi Programming stuff for students, teachers
VCL using
Tutorials and articles on using Delphi components more efficiently at design and run time. From the "Birth, Life and Death of a Form" to "Using database components in Delphi" and "Component Arrays and Run-Time VCL Creation"...
Delphi Pascal, OOP
Delphi Pascal/IDE tips, techniques and articles. Every programming aspect of Object Pascal is uncovered. From "Delphi Coding Standards and Conventions", to "File I/O with Delphi", "Threading in Delphi" and "OOP in Delphi"...
VCL Writing and Enhancing
Everything about creating custom components in Delphi. The ultimate source. From "Adding text completion to a TComboBox" to "Enhancing button components" and "Creating database components"...
Network and Interent programming
Delphi Network / Internet / Intranet Programming knowledge base. You need help on ActiveX, ASP, XML, CGI, WWW, HTML, FTP, ... this is the place with answers! From "About XML and Delphi" to "WebSnap, SOAP, Web Services" and "Producing HTML with Delphi"...
Windows / API / Shell programming
Articles concerning Delphi Windows/SHELL/API programming. From "*The Big Brother* Delphi code toolkit" to "NO GUI Delphi applications" and "Resource Files Made Easy"...
Back To School...
If you are a teacher you can find lessons for your students to follow along with at home. If you are a parent you can keep track of the work that your children are doing. If you are a student you can find info on any Delphi related subject on this site. You can even upload your work (for free), to show the World what you have made with Delphi.
