Delphi at Schools

[KillSw!tch]

Who here agrees with me that Delphi is the biggest crap on the planet? Seriously, thats why IT in school is so boring these days.

 

[The_Techie]

I did Delphi at school, now I'm doing Java. I wish I could go back to Delphi

 

[The Axe Dude]

I did Java...I love(d) it

 

[.Froot.]

When I was at school they threw out Delphi (I always thought it was useless) and brought in Java. Has definitely helped me to where I am now.

 

[FrancTheTank]

I still did Turbo Pascal at School
Delphi is kinda old too, but probably a nice starting block.

 

[KillSw!tch]

Eish, im so gonna phail this exams The onnie here cant do delphi to save herself

 

[Pyro]

At the end of the day the basics are the same, and Delphi is a more 'readable' language than Java.

 

[.Froot.]

At the end of the day the basics are the same, and Delphi is a more 'readable' language than Java.

But don't tell me you can make a career of Delphi these days on the same standard of Java....

 

[mh348]

I did Turbo Pascal when I was in school.

 

[HavocXphere]

Delphi is perfectly fine as a language. It fails because it lacks support and there are few opportunities out there for Delphi programmers.

 

[.Froot.]

Delphi is perfectly fine as a language. It fails because it lacks support and there are few opportunities out there for Delphi programmers.

Yeah that too.

 

[sn3rd]

Aren't Delphi and Pascal "teaching" languages?

 

[poffle]

Delphi is nice if you wanna go into gui languages. They are refered to as "teaching languages" cause it shows you the basics on how to program and how programming works.

 

[HavocXphere]

Aren't Delphi and Pascal "teaching" languages?

Not really. There are companies out there that use them for actual development.

The teacher just like it because it is very structured. e.g. you have to declare all the variables beforehand etc. With C++ etc there are a billion different/weird ways of doing the same thing....which confuses the hell out of Gr10s.

 

[hierts]

Not really. There are companies out there that use them for actual development.

The teacher just like it because it is very structured. e.g. you have to declare all the variables beforehand etc. With C++ etc there are a billion different/weird ways of doing the same thing....which confuses the hell out of Gr10s.

+1 and its more about teaching programming principles than a language you could get a job with.. they could combine the two and teach c# but thats way too much to ask of our school system.

 

[frailwings]

i hate delphi.its boring.

 

[S1ght]

I think delphi is fine as a starting block, its easy to learn and get used to a programming environment with. I wouldn't have minded tho if they had started teaching something a lil more useful towards the end of high school though. I'm not sure how much Visual Basic is used in the real world but having done delphi through school has definitely made studying VB a lot easier considering they almost basically the same