Learn To Program With Delphi And Object Pascal

Master programming on Windows or Mac OS X with Lazarus & Free Pascal or Delphi

What you'll learn
Cross-platform development with Lazarus on Mac, Windows or even Linux
Downloadable source code for Lazarus on Windows and Mac or Delphi on Windows
A 124-page eBook, The Little Book Of Pascal, explains all the topics in depth
Requirements
Description
Simply the fastest way to learn to program on a Mac or Windows – either with the industry-standard Delphi system or with the free Lazarus and Free Pascal you can learn cross-platform programming the easy way. Just drag-and-drop, click and code!This course will teach you the Object Pascal language, which is used not only by Lazarus but also by the well-established Delphi programming system. The knowledge you gain will give to entry to the world of commercial application development using Lazarus or Delphi.What you will learn:The fundamentals of programming – from the ground upObject orientation – its principles and practiceThe Object Pascal language – for neat, elegant, maintainable programmingCross-platform development – for Windows, Mac or even for Linux  Who should take the courseBeginners – if you’ve never coded before, you can learn pascal step by stepThis Pascal programming tutorial is also feasible for those Programmers who’ve used other languages – Ruby, Python or Java  but want to extend their knowledge? This is for you!Cross-platform developers – with Lazarus and Free Pascal, write  on one OS, compile on a different one!Huw Collingbourne has programmed in Object Pascal since the first release of Delphi in 1995. For over 10 years he was the Delphi programming columnist for PC Plus magazine in the UK. This course gives you in-depth instruction in programming with Delphi and the Object Pascal language.

Overview

Section 1: Getting Started

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 The Little Book Of Pascal (eBook)

Lecture 3 Source Code Archive

Lecture 4 Read Me First!

Lecture 5 Installing the software

Lecture 6 Your first program: 'Hello world'

Lecture 7 Load and run a sample project

Lecture 8 A quick tour of a Pascal code file

Section 2: Fundamentals of Pascal

Lecture 9 Variables

Lecture 10 Constants

Lecture 11 Comments

Section 3: Procedures and Functions

Lecture 12 Procedures And Functions

Lecture 13 Passing arguments by value and by reference

Lecture 14 Form Methods

Lecture 15 Sample program: calculating interest rates

Section 4: Data Types, Operators and Scope

Lecture 16 Data Types

Lecture 17 Parameters and type-checking

Lecture 18 Arithmetic Operators

Lecture 19 Scope

Section 5: Loops and Arrays

Lecture 20 'for' Loops

Lecture 21 Case Statements

Lecture 22 'while' and 'repeat' loops

Lecture 23 Arrays

Section 6: User-defined Types and File IO

Lecture 24 User-defined types

Lecture 25 Records

Lecture 26 File IO

Lecture 27 Saving and loading text files

Section 7: Object Orientation

Lecture 28 Introduction to Object Orientation

Lecture 29 Classes and Objects

Lecture 30 Saving and Loading Objects

Section 8: Class Hierarchies

Lecture 31 How to create a class hierarchy

Lecture 32 Forms and controls as Objects

Lecture 33 Code completion for classes

Lecture 34 Virtual methods

Lecture 35 Properties

Lecture 36 Getter Properties

Section 9: Exception-handling and Debugging

Lecture 37 Exceptions

Lecture 38 Error-recovery

Lecture 39 Debugging

Section 10: Going Further

Lecture 40 Write an adventure game!

Lecture 41 Serialization

Lecture 42 Additional Resources

Lecture 43 Going further…

Lecture 44 And finally…