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Reader Stories: What Were the "Missing Tutorials" When You Started With Delphi?

From Zarko Gajic, former About.com Guide

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? Was OOP in Delphi too complicated for you (as a beginner)? Are you using Delphi to create data-aware applications? What was hard to understand? Are you using Delphi to create games? How did you started? Are you using Delphi to enhance the Windows shell? Where did you get the ideas from?

Don't modify the Delphi source depite the tempatation

Delphi4 has excellent context sensitive help (unlike later versions) and as syntactically Delphi can be tricky this was a must. Code snippets from the web posted by generous authors was the next most…More

Cobol and VB3 ... Asked to Join a Delphi Team, What Delphi?

Learn by example. Do not try to write something from scratch if a similar example already exists. Take what was already written and modify it to meet your needs.When I began learning Delphi, in 1998,…More

Delphi Help Files Could Be Polished

Actually Delphi is great! I like the very conspicuous block ends 'begin' and 'end' and the error hints are really useful, especially '...may be undefined' even if it forces a few redundant lines of c…More

Coming from VBA experience

I purchased books that provided hand-held lessons. Accompanying the books, CDRom gave project at different stage of their achievement.I registered to Compuserve forums, where some very kind people ga…More

Delphi Knows Database Development

I used to talk directly to the tables (using the BDE).To flush the buffers, I created a bookmark. Then I movedthe recordpointer to the first record and then back to the bookmark. I even had a special…More

Delphi Was Hard After Clipper But...

Spent several hours every week over 12 months. Bought 3 teach myself books. Used About and other Delphi forums and to a limited extent, local programmers. A lot of code was by trial and error. Take C…More

The Whole Syntax of Delphi Feels "Right"

The C++ Builder book by Kent Reisdorph was an excellent beginning. It was clear and concise.I followed each example, duplicated each setup and practiced each technique until I understood what Kent ha…More

Controling Equipment with Delphi

I usually target areas that require controling equipment with a computer... log data through a database interface from robotic devices or in another vein, interface drawing with AutoCAD and databases…More