Hi Gour,
I've been programming for 53 years, learning everything from machine and
assembler languages to various OOPs. When Delphi first came out I used
it for four or five years and liked it. After retiring I was hired to
write a program to run on multiple platforms. I settled on FPC and
elected to use the Lazarus GUI before trying anything else in order to
learn Lazarus's limitations. I purchased the "Lazarus, the Complete
Guide" and "Learn to Program Using Pascal" package. I refer to the
guide when exploring methods, but find myself reaching most often for
Howard Page-Smith's "Learn to Program Using Lazarus". It has excellent
examples and got me going in a hurry. Like any language where you can
get to the guts of things, the learning curve can be long, maybe even
continuous. The forum is also an excellent resource when you need a
question answered. I do Google searches starting with "Pascal Lazarus"
and usually end up finding the answer in the forum. I got "The Blaise
Pascal Magazine" going back a bunch of issues as a bonus when I ordered
the package and found many excellent articles in them.
Gary
On 8/3/2015 3:58 AM, Gour wrote:
Hello,
after (too) much time exploring/evaluating different languages, I’ve
finally decided to use use FPC/Lazarus to write open-source
multi-platform desktop GUI app…
It would be kind of semi-hobby project and the reason why I took so long
to decide about Pascal is that I was using it long ago (>20yrs) while
studying software engineering on the University (we had to write some
compiler using TP, so I thought that some better language did
evolve. :-)
Of course, there are some interesting *languages*, but I simply do not
buy what web+JS is the only way to go to write app these days, and
that’s where FPC/Lazarus are shining very brightly!!
However, in the meantime, programming did not become my bread’n’butter,
so although programming is not strange/new thing to me, I need some
refreshment and looking for adequate literature/docs to equip myself to
use FPC/Lazarus for my GUI project…
I there is a ’bundle’
http://www.blaisepascal.eu/index.php?actie=./subscribers/lazarusbookinfoEnglish
offering to buy Lazarus Complete Guide and get Learn to Program Using
Lazarus as downloadable PDF, so I wonder if it is good-enough for
learning FPC and start with Lazarus?
I’m aware there are lot of online docs available, but I am simply
accustomed to use/hold concrete books (if possible) and reduce my time
of starring at computer screens to save my eyes a bit.
Another option which I’ve found is: “Getting Started with Lazarus and
Free Pascal: A beginners and intermediate guide to Free Pascal using
Lazarus IDE” (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1507632525/ref=rdr_ext_tmb) but
it seems it’s more into web development than writign desktop GUI apps?
Besides that, one Delphi/Lazarus user suggested to get some of the
“Marco Cantu's mastering.. series of older versions”, but not having
*any* experience with neither Delphi nor FPC/Lazarus, I’m looking for
some helpful hints which path to go?
Sincerely,
Gour
p.s. I sent the same message from Gmane-subscribed group, but never
received its authorization message and it seems that the message went to
/dev/null, so, please, if anyone can check whether the information at
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ide.lazarus.general is correct since the
“requires subscription to mailing list to post” status usually means it
should be possible to post for subscribed users, while my experience is
more like “posting isn't allowed”?
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