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kapibara

Hi guys,
I'm thinking of starting a FPC/Lazarus course in my local area. It would be interesting to know where you all think FPC (and Lazarus) is in 5-10 years?

Personally I think ObjectPascal is a great and productive language, hence, I'd like to see it flourish. (C# simply reminds of my six wasted years with C/C++ in the early 90's)

However, it doesn't matter how good it is if for example Embarcadero raises some copyright issue or something. And the FPC/Lazarus projects has to go. That sounds of course like madness to come with that now, 10-20 years after the conception of fpc/lazarus. Still, can someone reassure that the FPC/Lazarus projects can't be forced to be shut down for such reasons? Because the the students will have my balls.

Regards,
Kapi.

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Jonas Maebe
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However, it doesn't matter how good it is if for example Embarcadero raises some copyright issue or something. And the FPC/Lazarus projects has to go. That sounds of course like madness to come with that now, 10-20 years after the conception of fpc/lazarus. Still, can someone reassure that the FPC/Lazarus projects can't be forced to be shut down for such reasons?

Please hold that discussion on the fpc-other mailing list.

Thanks,

Jonas
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Graeme Geldenhuys
to kapibara: I'm thinking of starting a FPC/Lazarus course in my local area. It would be interesting…
kapibara wrote
I'm thinking of starting a FPC/Lazarus course in my local area. It would be interesting to know where you all think FPC (and Lazarus) is in 5-10 years?

It's open source, and originally started in Europe, so the USA copyright probably doesn't apply. But I'm no lawyer.

As for the FPC/Lazarus course. You might find this link interesting.

http://www.clubengineer.org/

It was started by Peter Hinrichsen - a very talented Delphi developer. It contains courseware for kids to get into programming. It starts by using some visual programming tool (written in Perl or Ruby I think). Then once they grasp the concept of programming, he moves them on towards Pascal (using FPC and Lazarus). To make things interesting they also use Lego Mindstorm to capture the imagination of the kids, and enhance there problem solving skills.

All the courseware is freely available on the website as far as I know. They also have a monthly newsletter you can subscribe to, to get the latest news and info.

Here are some YouTube links

Robocup Rescue with NXT-G - Introduction - 01 About Robocup Rescue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w13yQsFNdY

Club Engineer - School Holiday Program Promotion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysKWddbIeTE

Regards,
- Graeme -

fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/

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