Learn To Program with Pascal
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
Course content
- Preview06:14
- 124 pagesThe Little Book Of Pascal (eBook)
- 00:32Source Code Archive
- 02:01Read Me First!
- 02:33Installing the software
- 05:46Your first program: 'Hello world'
- 04:36Load and run a sample project
- Preview08:54
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 up
- Object orientation – its principles and practice
- The Object Pascal language – for neat, elegant, maintainable programming
- Cross-platform development – for Windows, Mac or even for Linux
Who should take the course
- Beginners – if you’ve never coded before, you can learn pascal step by step
- This 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!
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Instructor
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Huw Collingbourne is the technology director at SapphireSteel Software, developers of programming tools for Microsoft Visual Studio. He is author of The Little Book Of C, The Little Book Of Pointers and The Little Book Of Recursion from Bitwise Books and of The Book Of Ruby from No Starch Press. He runs Bitwise Courses and teaches courses on a range of programming topics.
Huw has been a programmer for more than 30 years. He is a well-known technology writer in the UK. For over ten years he wrote the Delphi and Java programming column for PC Plus Magazine. He has also written numerous opinion and programming columns (including tutorials on C#, C++, Smalltalk and Ruby) for a number of computer magazines, such as Computer Shopper, PC Pro, and PC Plus.
In the 1980s he was a pop music journalist and interviewed most of the New Romantic stars, such as Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Adam Ant, Boy George, and Depeche Mode. He is now writing a series of 1980s murder mysteries.
At various times Huw has been a magazine publisher, editor, and TV broadcaster. He has an MA in English from the University of Cambridge and holds a 2nd dan black belt in aikido, a martial art which he teaches in North Devon, UK. The aikido comes in useful when trying (usually unsuccessfully) to keep his Pyrenean Mountain Dogs under some semblance of control.