Re: [lazarus] Looking for experience using Lazarus in programming education

2007-04-16 Thread Nataraj S Narayan
Hi Tom Mine is a case of implementing lazarus in an International School. But it was not for Education, but for Administration. I made front ends for MySQL backend using SQLDB using lazarus under Linux. The software was implemented on hard disk less thin client machines with linux LTSP

Re: [lazarus] Looking for experience using Lazarus in programming education

2007-04-16 Thread Nataraj S Narayan
Hi Tom Mine is a case of implementing lazarus in an International School. But it was not for Education, but for Administration. I made front ends for MySQL backend using SQLDB using lazarus under Linux. The software was implemented on hard disk less thin client machines with linux LTSP

Re: [lazarus] Looking for experience using Lazarus in programming education

2007-01-29 Thread Kris Leech
The app was made so it can be compiled both with Lazarus and Delphi. At first I used a model were I could develop forms visually, and then after altering a form on one of the two, manual ajusts were required to update the form for the other. But after a time I just gave up using the form

Re: [lazarus] Looking for experience using Lazarus in programming education

2007-01-29 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 1/29/07, Kris Leech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What where you main issues keeping Delphi compatibility? Did you develop in Laz, then try compiling in Delphi, fixing any errors (mainly syntax errors?)? Using mode delphi, I don´t think I had any sintax differences to be solved. The problems I

Re: [lazarus] Looking for experience using Lazarus in programming education

2007-01-29 Thread Marc Weustink
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: Also, how to hide the cursor? On Windows just do a: Windows.ShowCursor(boolNewState); Now, for Gtk I tryed a lot, for weeks, but didn´t have much success. Even found code on the web ... but just doesn´t work on my PC. FYI, I've a patch waiting (need to fix

Re: [lazarus] Looking for experience using Lazarus in programming education

2007-01-27 Thread lazarus . mramirez
Quoting Tom Verhoeff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We have been using FreePascal for many years in our programming Hi, I have work both as a Programming teacher and a Software Developer. We are not so happy with the direction that Delphi is going, especially Many developers/teachers here have the

Re: [lazarus] Looking for experience using Lazarus in programming education

2007-01-27 Thread Tom Verhoeff
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 08:43:11PM +0100, Bogusław Brandys wrote: Tom Verhoeff wrote: We have been using FreePascal for many years in our programming education (see signature for location). Students mostly developed their (typically small, console apps) with Delphi, and submitted it to our

Re: [lazarus] Looking for experience using Lazarus in programming education

2007-01-27 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 1/26/07, Tom Verhoeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am interested in collecting experiences with using Lazarus in education, in particular as a tool of primary choice for programming. Let me hear those success stories, so I convince others ... Ok, I have a success story, but as a student, not

Re: [lazarus] Looking for experience using Lazarus in programming education

2007-01-27 Thread Micha Nelissen
Tom Verhoeff wrote: Sure, but you will have to bootstrap the process. Before students can contribute, you'll have to teach them the basics. And before that can happen, there needs to be a convincing case for actually using the tools. I would like to give it a try, but I cannot decide by

[lazarus] Looking for experience using Lazarus in programming education

2007-01-26 Thread Tom Verhoeff
We have been using FreePascal for many years in our programming education (see signature for location). Students mostly developed their (typically small, console apps) with Delphi, and submitted it to our PEACH.win.tue.nl system for grading. We are not so happy with the direction that Delphi is

Re: [lazarus] Looking for experience using Lazarus in programming education

2007-01-26 Thread Darius Blaszijk
Hi Tom, Some people (incl. students) in our department who have tried Lazarus in the past have reported in a negative way, and this is now making it difficult to move to Lazarus. What did they report? What problem is preventing you to move to Lazarus? Darius

Re: [lazarus] Looking for experience using Lazarus in programming education

2007-01-26 Thread Bogusław Brandys
Tom Verhoeff wrote: We have been using FreePascal for many years in our programming education (see signature for location). Students mostly developed their (typically small, console apps) with Delphi, and submitted it to our PEACH.win.tue.nl system for grading. Let them fix Lazarus bugs for

Re: [lazarus] Looking for experience using Lazarus in programming education

2007-01-26 Thread Fujimaki Haruyuki
Tom Verhoeff wrote: [...] I am interested in collecting experiences with using Lazarus in education, in particular as a tool of primary choice for programming. Let me hear those success stories, so I convince others ... Tom Last year, I have launched a 15-h course named Data Processing

Re: [lazarus] Looking for experience using Lazarus in programming education

2007-01-26 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 1/26/07, Tom Verhoeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some people (incl. students) in our department who have tried Lazarus in the past have reported in a negative way, and this is now making it difficult to move to Lazarus. How long ago was that? Lazarus has made remarkable progress on the last