Re: [fpc-other] Re:Pascal Showcase Project/Education

2008-12-11 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Thu, December 11, 2008 10:37, Michael Fuchs wrote: > Mark J. Wood schrieb: >> It would be good if there was a version of >> an ObjectPascal that was packaged to meet that need, as you say. I often >> teach in TP, but it's such a dinosaur. It would be good to have a >> bridging step. > > But if y

Re: [fpc-other] Re:Pascal Showcase Project/Education

2008-12-11 Thread Michael Fuchs
Mark J. Wood schrieb: It would be good if there was a version of an ObjectPascal that was packaged to meet that need, as you say. I often teach in TP, but it's such a dinosaur. It would be good to have a bridging step. But if you teach in TP you can easily switch to Freepascal and use the te

Re: [fpc-other] Re:Pascal Showcase Project/Education

2008-12-10 Thread Mark J. Wood
And of course, one of the reasons that Turbo Pascal was so popular for educators was the straight forward progression from source to exe (although I seem to recall a linking stage in the early days, I think, but even that's not so bad). It would be good if there was a version of an ObjectPascal

[fpc-other] Re:Pascal Showcase Project/Education

2008-12-10 Thread Richard Ward
For beginning computer science classes I think a simpler IDE would be more suitable and for advanced courses, the complete environment could be used. Full ACK. While I am teaching Object Pascal, I start with gedit + fpc in shell. The Lazarus IDE is too much for beginners. But the use of ged