Learning Lazarus

[The_Unbeliever]

This coming from a guy who've used Turbo Pascal a couple of times in the DOS days to write programs.

I can write a very simple Pascal program like asking for your name and birthday, and displaying it

eg

Program NameandAge;

Var
        Name : String;
        Age : Integer;

Begin
        Writeln('Well, hello there. What is your name?');
        Readln(Name);
        Writeln('And your Age?');
        Readln(Age);
        Writeln('Welcome ', Name,' aged ', Age ,' years old');
        Readln;
End.

Programming is very rusty, have to start from the beginning!

So, where do I get Lazarus/Delphi n00b programming guides?

TIA

Ook

 

[_kabal_]

First question is why? C# is pretty close to Delphi, syntactically, and java is pretty similar too, both of which are better options

 

[Beachless]

Its used quite a lot in universities and coledges so there are quite a few decent delphi books which take you through it. The wiki has plenty of info but its not as nice to work through as a good book : http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Documentation

I would also recommend C# though as its much more common with much more examples and free guides but either will get the job done.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Any good C# tutorials and primers then?

FWIW - Also did a C course back in the days, most of it is all but forgotten...

 

[Beachless]

There are plenty but here is the Microsoft link:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa187916.aspx

And a good place to start:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h8w79z10.aspx

And the free version of VS:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-za/download/details.aspx?id=40787

 

[The_Unbeliever]

There are plenty but here is the Microsoft link:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa187916.aspx

And a good place to start:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h8w79z10.aspx

And the free version of VS:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-za/download/details.aspx?id=40787

Ta

Will give it a go and see if I can get the rusty machinery oiled again.

 

[Pho3nix]

Check out the Channel 9 videos on C#. http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/C-Sharp-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners
With the PDF and the downloadable videos. Found this to be a lot of help