Hello,

I’ve just noticed that Object Pascal Handbook
(http://www.marcocantu.com/objectpascalhandbook/) is released (avaialable @Amazon) and considering that on the back cover it says: “The Object Pascal Handbook is the complete guide to the programming language of Delphi and AppMethod, by Embarcadero Technologies.” I wonder, being FPC noob, how suitable it can be for learning FPC?

Sincerely,
Gour

p.s. My interest it purely FPC and do not intend using Delphi/AppMethod.

Gour wrote

I’ve just noticed that Object Pascal Handbook (http://www.marcocantu.com/objectpascalhandbook/) is released

Thanks for mentioning that. I'm pretty confident that much of the language content will be applicable even when using FPC. The best solution would probably be to download a sample (normally Kindle books allow that) and see for yourself.

Incidently, I came across a "Start programming using Object Pascal" book on my hard drive last night. It uses Free Pascal specifically. It was written by Motaz Abdel Azeem, and is available for free (Creative Commons license). I couldn't find it on the original site (code.sd), so made it available on my server. It is about 160 pages. I quickly scanned through the content and it seems pretty good as a starting point - as the title says. ;-)

http://geldenhuys.co.uk/~graemeg/StartProgUsingPascal.pdf

Regards,
- Graeme -

2015.08.07. 13:13 keltezéssel, Gour írta:

I wonder, being FPC noob, how suitable it can be for learning FPC?

Hi,

The official documentation is not a good start point?

http://www.freepascal.org/docs.var

http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_documentation

Gabor

2015-08-07 14:05 GMT+02:00 Graeme Geldenhuys
:

Incidently, I came across a "Start programming using Object Pascal" book on my hard drive last night. It uses Free Pascal specifically. It was

also at https://archive.org/details/StartProgrammingUsingObjectPascal

Gabor Boros wrote

The official documentation is not a good start point?

Indeed, Michael's work is of very high quality, and the PDF documents look fantastic (thank you LaTeX).

@Michael van Canneyt:
Any chance of generating a A5 version of the Language Guide or would that be a huge amount of work? I would imagine the syntax graphs might cause an issue. The reason I'm asking... I found that A5 PDF documents can be viewed pretty comfortably on a Kindle (while we don't have a ePub or Mobi version <wink>).

Regards,
- Graeme -

Normally it requires you to edit 2 lines:
change preamble.report to use a5paper.
in fpc.sty, comment out the RequirePackage{a4} statement

That's it. I just tried, works fine.
You may need to edit the margins to use more of the page, as the margins are fo A4 paper.

Michael.

Graeme Geldenhuys

I'm pretty confident that much of the language content will be applicable even when using FPC.

Good.

Is it reasonable to assume that if there are some current ’Delphi-only’ features described in the book they are going to arrive in FPS sooner or later?

The best solution would probably be to download a sample (normally Kindle books allow that) and see for yourself.

So far, nothing is available, neither detailed TOC, nor sample pages…

Thanks a lot! I bet we already stumbled on it, but, somehow, forgot it later. :-(

Sincerely,
Gour

Gabor Boros wrote

The official documentation is not a good start point?

Well, it’s pretty comperhensive, but “Reference Guide” is reference, while, atm, I’m looking for something like manual/tutorial.

Of course, I’m sure that official docs will be indispensable later. ;)

Sincerely,
Gour

In general, yes. Though some features might take longer than others...

Regards,
Sven