Re: [fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

2022-12-27 Thread Christo Crause via fpc-pascal
On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 6:47 PM Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal < fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > My idea is to implement a web page system where syntax highlight code is > presented like in the Lazarus IDE, and special links are peppered through > and explanation of how and why Pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

2022-12-27 Thread Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal
"I see there's a timer there.. but what starts it? What happens when it times out? How do I set the amount of time? Why is there even a timer at all? I don't know any of this." James, when you raised these questions are you saying that you don't know, or that someone who doesn't know much if

Re: [fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

2022-12-27 Thread James Richters via fpc-pascal
>>If the target audience are people that are not yet into programming, I think the code samples might be a little too difficult ? I have been programming with Pascal since the days of Turbo Pascal, I have applications with hundreds of thousands of lines of code, and I also program C++ and Python,

Re: [fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

2022-12-27 Thread Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal
Thank you for that tip. I might try that out in a later guide where trying out your own code might be more appropriate. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

2022-12-27 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
On Tue, 27 Dec 2022, Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal wrote: Hi guys, I had a new idea for an interface design to help people who either are not into programming yet or have only used a language other than Free Pascal. Please see this draft Introduction to Free Pascal web page I posted this

[fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

2022-12-27 Thread Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal
Hi guys, I had a new idea for an interface design to help people who either are not into programming yet or have only used a language other than Free Pascal. Please see this draft Introduction to Free Pascal web page I posted this morning. https://www.getlazarus.org/guides/intro/ My idea is to

Re: [fpc-pascal] fcl-web websocket

2022-12-27 Thread Andrew Haines via fpc-pascal
On 12/27/22 3:39 AM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote: Anyway: I have applied the patch, and added your example with some minor modifications. Thank you for both ! Michael. ___ Awesome thanks very much! Andrew

Re: [fpc-pascal] fcl-web websocket

2022-12-27 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
On Mon, 26 Dec 2022, Andrew Haines wrote: On 12/26/22 8:48 AM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote: Please make a version of your program that does not use the LCL. Then I'll test that too. 2 reasons for this request: - I don't have a working version of Lazarus with FPC trunk. -