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Development Programming Languages Pascal Programming Language

Learn To Program with Pascal

Master programming on Windows or Mac OS X with Lazarus & Free Pascal or Delphi
Bestseller
Rating: 4.3 out of 54.3 (543 ratings)
3,224 students
Created by Huw Collingbourne
Published 10/2012
English
English [Auto]
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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
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Course content

10 sections • 44 lectures • 6h 57m total length

  • Preview06:14
  • The Little Book Of Pascal (eBook)
    124 pages
  • Source Code Archive
    00:32
  • Read Me First!
    02:01
  • Installing the software
    02:33
  • Your first program: 'Hello world'
    05:46
  • Load and run a sample project
    04:36
  • Preview08:54

  • Variables
    08:03
  • Constants
    07:21
  • Comments
    02:49

  • Procedures And Functions
    10:53
  • Passing arguments by value and by reference
    08:20
  • Form Methods
    04:38
  • Sample program: calculating interest rates
    11:41

  • Data Types
    08:01
  • Parameters and type-checking
    09:12
  • Arithmetic Operators
    01:53
  • Scope
    14:19

  • 'for' Loops
    11:22
  • Case Statements
    04:56
  • 'while' and 'repeat' loops
    10:24
  • Arrays
    09:01

  • User-defined types
    08:56
  • Records
    07:38
  • File IO
    09:19
  • Saving and loading text files
    08:53

  • Introduction to Object Orientation
    07:13
  • Classes and Objects
    07:21
  • Saving and Loading Objects
    05:06

  • How to create a class hierarchy
    08:26
  • Forms and controls as Objects
    02:44
  • Code completion for classes
    02:45
  • Virtual methods
    12:42
  • Properties
    12:12
  • Getter Properties
    02:37

  • Exceptions
    07:28
  • Error-recovery
    03:37
  • Debugging
    13:39

  • Write an adventure game!
    06:27
  • Serialization
    06:46
  • Additional Resources
    00:11
  • Going further...
    04:00
  • And finally...
    01:42

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!

Featured review

Mike Felker
Mike Felker
61 courses
11 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 53 months ago
Great course! Huw is incredibly easy to understand with clear, concise explanations. This course is for absolute beginners and I would not mind a more intensive advanced course, but as a refresher, it was perfect!

Instructor

Huw Collingbourne
Director of Technology, SapphireSteel Software
Huw Collingbourne
  • 4.4 Instructor Rating
  • 9,193 Reviews
  • 78,766 Students
  • 16 Courses

  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. 

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