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Title: Discover Delphi : Programming Principles Explained by Shirley Williams, Sue Walmsley ISBN: 0-201-34286-3 Publisher: Pearson Addison Wesley Pub. Date: 14 July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $73.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (9 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: good examples but slow and missing important info
Comment: it may be good for the novice, but as i already know 3 other languages i found it slow and missing alot of important information. It goes straight in with programing examples and doesnt provide a good foundation for understanding how delphi programs are structured. The tiny chapter on objects was very poor. Also they never explained how find the info on the components. I think the fact that delhpi is so easy to use may make this book seem better than it is. It is a bit like giving people instructions without ever helping them to undestand what they are doing. I expect beginers will like it because it avoids the in depth explanations and is more about trying out examples.
If you are already a proficient programer then you will find this book far to long. It could be easily sumarised it into 50 pages and still contain all the info. If you want to learn about Object Orientated programing forget this book. The thing that most anoyed me was the fact that they had code snippets that were numbered as if from line 1 when the code was not from the start of the program. To the novice programer this could be very confusing. And they had snippets with no line numbering. Are they purposly trying to confuse people.
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent For Beginner
Comment: If you have never programmed in Turbo Pascal, than you should almost certainly get a copy of this book. It does indeed teach Delphi from grounds up and you will learn a great deal.
If you are fully conversant with Pascal Syntax and structure, you might gain something reading through this book, but I do believe that you will gain more by reading through Tom Swan's book Delphi Bible followed by Charles Calvert Delphi Unleashed
Rating: 5
Summary: Good foundation to Delphi 4 or 5
Comment: I found this book to be very good in presenting Delphi in a understandable manner. Having a computer science background, I could grasp the concepts easily and never seem to get bored of the book. Even if you don't have a background in programming, I definitely recommend this book to start you off because its an easy read, and you will not have go through tons of concepts before reaching the code but instead, it'll present useful coded examples followed with important explainations on how/why its done.
I got this book because I wanted to start off my Delphi adventure, and it delivered! Its also comforting to know that its not a thick book!! It gives you plenty of examples and teaches you what you REALLY need to know, using Object Pascal and the RAD components! Not only that, it gives you self-review and practice questions to work on after each chapter. So basically it cuts to the chase and tells you what you ought to learn rather than what you might find useful.
As a conclusion, I recommend that you buy this book whatever your level of programming may be as it not only shows you how Delphi is used but also builds up your foundation on programming principles as shown in the book.
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Title: Discover Pascal in Delphi by Shirley Williams ISBN: 0201709198 Publisher: Pearson Addison Wesley Pub. Date: 16 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $73.00 |
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Title: Learn Pascal in Three Days (With CD-ROM) by Sam A. Abolrous ISBN: 1556228058 Publisher: Wordware Publishing Pub. Date: 15 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Delphi for .NET Developer's Guide, First Edition by Xavier Pacheco ISBN: 0672324431 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Delphi in a Nutshell by Ray Lischner ISBN: 1565926595 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Delphi 6 Developer's Guide (With CD-ROM) by Xavier Pacheco, Steve Teixeira ISBN: 0672321157 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $64.99 |
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