Hello Glenn
I was in exactly your position 2 years ago. Here is my penny's worth.
I got the Delphi in 21 Days book (it came free with D3 at the time) and it
was a good starting point, but you would be superhuman do take it in in 21
days.
Next I went to a 2 day Borland course in Auckland. With my lack of
programming knowledge (let alone OO) it came frighteningly close to being a
complete waste of money for me. This was no fault of the course - it's just
that you NEEDED a greater level of experience than I had.
I have found two publications to be particularly useful:
A CD of Delphi Informant back numbers. I found these more useful than
current issues of the mag as they covered things at a more basic level.
They recently seem to have overlooked the fact that there are still learners
out there - Delphis been going for 5 years therefore all of our readers have
been using it for 5 years!
Marco Cantu's Mastering Delphi. This is excellent. I have found the level
of this book MUCH more useful than that of Teixera and Pachero's Delphi
Developer's Guide (which I also have).
Both of these books (and many others) should be available through your local
library (get in before the polytechs and uni's start back) for you to have a
look and and assess which are best for your level.
Without doubt the best teaching that I got was, once a week, sitting with a
Delphi programmer/mentor as he implemented parts of a system that I had
designed; continuing with the coding myself during the week and seeing his
solutions to problems that I had encountered during the week
Finally, you've already found a very knowledgable and patient group of
people willing to pass on their experience, though the Delphi Users Group.
This group has helped me enormously.
Good luck!
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Sugrue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 2:09 PM
Subject: RE: [DUG]: Where can I learn?
> There is a one year training course in Delphi available from one of the
> private institutions. I can't remember though - sorry. I guess you could
do
> a ring around.
>
> A good book is Delphi (4 or 5) Developers Guide by Steve Teixeira & Xavier
> Pacheco. I have read it from the viewpoint of an experienced Delphi
> developer, but the early chapters do a pretty good job of explaining
Object
> Pascal and OO in general.
>
> It is (along with others) from www.itknowledge.com, which allows a free
> trial I think.
>
> Also a good website to look at is www.delphi.about.com which has quite a
few
> tutorials for beginners.
>
> Last but not least, try
> http://www.delphi-jedi.org/Jedi:KBASEBOOKLIST:77339
>
> which has a list of free Delphi books available on-line.
>
> Good Luck.
>
> James Sugrue
> (Team JEDI)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn Bull [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 25 January 2001 10:20
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: [DUG]: Where can I learn?
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> I am currently itching to learn Delphi. I have just come back from the
Chch
> Polytech and found that they don't have any courses on delphi this year. I
> live in Christchurch and would like to learn delphi 4 or above. I have
> programming background but not in OO languages. Could someone please
advise
> me as to where I would be best to learn delphi in the Christchurch area.
>
> Thanks for your help! regards,
>
> Glenn Bull
>
>
> "Have a great now, it's all you really have!"
>
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