Re: [fpc-pascal] Favourite Pascal books
Hi Patrick, I am just putting together an order for abebooks. They have a million and one Pascal books. I can't decide on which ones to buy. I also forgot to mention in my previous post, there are some more sources of information. I have some e-books in INF format. They came from the Sybil Library. Sibyl was a Delphi-clone, much like FPC Lazarus, but for the OS/2 and later the Windows platforms. The company later closed down, but open sourced much of their work. Anyway, the one ebook [tutorial.inf] has 10 chapters covering the Object Pascal language in a nice friendly manner. Easy to follow. There are some references to Sybil or OS/2, but the information about the language is sound, and using FPC you should be able to follow the examples without problems. The second ebook [oop_refg.inf] covers Object Oriented Programming using Object Pascal. Unfortunately this book is only available in German - I have plans to translate it to English soon. To view the books you need an INF viewer. You can download fpGUI's Docview binary for Windows or Linux from SourceForge [http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpgui/files/fpGUI/0.8/], or you can compile the latest version of DocView from the fpGUI repository. DocView is a small stand-alone application (450KB download) - no installation or 3rd party libraries are required. Some INF e-books are available at: http://opensoft.homeip.net/~graemeg/inf_books/ Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
[fpc-pascal] Favourite Pascal books
Hi Everyone I am just putting together an order for abebooks. They have a million and one Pascal books. I can't decide on which ones to buy. Could you let me know what your favourite Pascal books are? -Patrick ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Re: [fpc-pascal] Favourite Pascal books
- Original Message - From: Patrick patr...@spellingbeewinnars.org To: fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Cc: Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 3:51 PM Subject: [fpc-pascal] Favourite Pascal books Hi Everyone I am just putting together an order for abebooks. They have a million and one Pascal books. I can't decide on which ones to buy. Could you let me know what your favourite Pascal books are? -Patrick The best introductory Turbo Pascal book I've ever read was Mastering Turbo Pascal 6 from Scott D. Palmer spanish edition, I remember how amazed I was after learning how pointers work, and how fast my apps became after replacing arrays by linked lists, etc. Of course this is a very old book, focused mostly on procedural programming (it has a couple of oop chapter, though). http://www.urbe.edu/UDWLibrary/InfoBook.do?id=1989 Another great book I've read was Mastering Delphi 5 and 6 from Marco Cantú, they covered every detail of Delphi, from UI, to Services, and also OOP. http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Delphi-6/dp/0782128742 Apart from those, I recommend reading not so Pascal specific books, but application design in general, like Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture from Martin Fowler. http://www.amazon.com/Patterns-Enterprise-Application-Architecture-Martin/dp/0321127420/ref=sr_1_1?s=booksie=UTF8qid=1358855453sr=1-1keywords=design+patterns+martin Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Re: [fpc-pascal] Favourite Pascal books
Once upon a time, on 01/21/2013 07:51 PM to be precise, Patrick said: Hi Everyone I am just putting together an order for abebooks. They have a million and one Pascal books. I can't decide on which ones to buy. Could you let me know what your favourite Pascal books are? -Patrick For the beginning programmer: http://www.amazon.com/Sams-Teach-Yourself-Delphi-Days/dp/0672312867/ref=sr_1_1?s=booksie=UTF8qid=1358859138sr=1-1keywords=delphi+4+21 -- Ewald ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Re: [fpc-pascal] Favourite Pascal books
On 01/22/13 11:52, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: The best introductory Turbo Pascal book I've ever read was Mastering Turbo Pascal 6 from Scott D. Palmer spanish edition, I remember how amazed I was after learning how pointers work, and how fast my apps became after replacing arrays by linked lists, etc. Of course this is a very old book, focused mostly on procedural programming (it has a couple of oop chapter, though). Yeah, that was a good book. Apart from those, I recommend reading not so Pascal specific books, but application design in general, like Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture from Martin Fowler. Very good advice! I would simply learn the syntax. So read the Delphi or FPC Language Reference Guides. Once you have the basics, start writing code - that is the best way to learn. The Test Driven Development book by Kent Beck (great book) had a brilliant idea. If Kent wanted to learn a new language, he tried to implement a Unit Testing framework. By the time he had a usable testing framework, he knew pretty much everything the language had to offer. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Test-Driven-Development-Addison-Wesley-Signature/dp/0321146530 Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Re: [fpc-pascal] Favourite Pascal books
Thanks to Leonardo, Ewald and Graeme I am off to a great start-Patrick ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Re: [fpc-pascal] Favourite Pascal books
On 1/22/2013 06:52, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: The best introductory Turbo Pascal book I've ever read was Mastering Turbo Pascal 6 from Scott D. Palmer spanish edition, i've got one with that very same title but written by Tom Swan... the one i have is the paperback, fourth edition - third printing 1993... 1037 pages... ISBN: 0-672-48505-2 LCCCN: 91-61702 ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Re: [fpc-pascal] Favourite Pascal books
waldo kitty wrote: On 1/22/2013 06:52, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: The best introductory Turbo Pascal book I've ever read was Mastering Turbo Pascal 6 from Scott D. Palmer spanish edition, i've got one with that very same title but written by Tom Swan... the one i have is the paperback, fourth edition - third printing 1993... 1037 pages... ISBN: 0-672-48505-2 LCCCN: 91-61702 Has anybody mentioned Lazarus: The Complete Guide yet? http://www.blaisepascal.eu/index.php?actie=./subscribers/UK_Book_Department I don't have a copy, but I think that the cross-platform aspect of Free Pascal and Lazarus means that one has at least to be aware that some facets of TP and Delphi don't apply. Also both Delphi/Lazarus and the underlying Object Pascal language have moved so much towards a component-based approach that things like linked list manipulation are far less important than they used to be. Arguably, if you find yourself with a pointer or an address at the application level then you're at fault: everything like that should be in custom objects with well-defined interfaces. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
