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Lazarus book

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Michael Van Canneyt

Hello,

Just a short message to say that the (German) Lazarus book by C&L is currently in print, and will be shipped on March 25.

It is targeted at beginners and people who migrate from Delphi to Lazarus.

The website of C&L (http://www.cul.de/) does not show it yet, but I assume they will update the website shortly.

Michael.

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Flávio Etrusco
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Michael Van Canneyt wrote 14 lines
Hello, Just a short message to say that the (German) Lazarus book by C&L is currently in print, and will be shipped on March 25. It is targeted at beginners and people who migrate from Delphi to Lazarus. The website of C&L (http://www.cul.de/) does not show it yet, but I assume they will update the website shortly. Michael.

Congratulations to the authors! Hope it sells very very ;-)

Best regards,
Fl?vio

PS. Too bad I don't speak German :-(

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waldo kitty
to Michael Van Canneyt: Just a short message to say that the (German) Lazarus book by C&L is currently in print,…
Michael Van Canneyt wrote
Just a short message to say that the (German) Lazarus book by C&L is currently in print, and will be shipped on March 25.

yay!! how far off is the english version?? any idea on the price? i much prefer a real book to pdf cr4p ;)

It is targeted at beginners and people who migrate from Delphi to Lazarus.

well, i'm not a Pascal beginner but i have never done delphi or even the old borland TurboVision stuff (never needed it in my apps)...

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The website of C&L (http://www.cul.de/) does not show it yet, but I assume they will update the website shortly. Michael. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

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Graeme Geldenhuys
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waldo kitty wrote
yay!! how far off is the english version?? any idea on the price? i much prefer a real book to pdf cr4p ;)

I'm hoping for an English edition too (and will by it simply because I'm a Lazarus user), but I can imagine it's a lot of work. Jorg already told me how much work the current German book was and that it was almost cancelled at one stage.

I'm glad to see it finally made it to print! Congrats to all the authors.

As for PDF books... I hope to one day get a Kindle DX or similar device - I can actually see myself reading on e-Ink screens and a device that is portable, light and similar size to a A4 page. I probably have 30-40 programming eBooks, but never read them simply because it's wasteful printing them, and I hate reading on standard computer monitors or laptops.

Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

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waldo kitty
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Graeme Geldenhuys wrote 8 lines
On 26 February 2010 18:35, waldo kitty wrote: > > yay!! how far off is the english version?? any idea on the price? i much > prefer a real book to pdf cr4p ;) I'm hoping for an English edition too (and will by it simply because I'm a Lazarus user),

i want to be more of a user than i am now... currently, i spend most of my time with laz just reading this list :? this/a book specific to laz will be a huge help to me... i've just not had any luck/fun with the delphi stuff that i have found and that mainly because they say to drag X here but X doesn't exist in laz or has a different name/icon/whatever :?

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but I can imagine it's a lot of work. Jorg already told me how much work the current German book was and that it was almost cancelled at one stage. I'm glad to see it finally made it to print! Congrats to all the authors.

same here!

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As for PDF books... I hope to one day get a Kindle DX or similar device - I can actually see myself reading on e-Ink screens and a device that is portable, light and similar size to a A4 page. I probably have 30-40 programming eBooks, but never read them simply because it's wasteful printing them, and I hate reading on standard computer monitors or laptops.

not to mention that you can't drag your whole machine into the "library" with you for a reading session :P myself? i want the book open on my lap/desk while i work with what i'm doing... in this way, i can use a hiliter to hilite the important parts as well as easier follow along with what i'm doing...

you should see my 1986 "Using Turbo Pascal" by Steve Wood, my 1987 "Complete Turbo Pascal (2nd edition)" by Jeff Duntemann and my 1993 "Mastering Turbo Pascal 6 (4th edition, 3rd printing)" by Tom Swan... they all carry numerous bookmark tabs and hilited entries in them :P

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Michael Van Canneyt
to Graeme Geldenhuys: I'm hoping for an English edition too (and will by it simply because I'm a Lazarus user),…
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote 12 lines
On 26 February 2010 18:35, waldo kitty wrote: > > yay!! how far off is the english version?? any idea on the price? i much > prefer a real book to pdf cr4p ;) I'm hoping for an English edition too (and will by it simply because I'm a Lazarus user), but I can imagine it's a lot of work. Jorg already told me how much work the current German book was and that it was almost cancelled at one stage. I'm glad to see it finally made it to print! Congrats to all the authors.

As soon as the dust has settled and the first sales figures come in, I will again inquire for an english version. Once the text is finished, it is just a matter of translating and finding an english publisher prepared to publish (lulu is not an option), so the amount of work is limited.

Michael.

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Marco Ciampa
to Michael Van Canneyt: Just a short message to say that the (German) Lazarus book by C&L is currently in print,…
Michael Van Canneyt wrote 14 lines
Hello, Just a short message to say that the (German) Lazarus book by C&L is currently in print, and will be shipped on March 25. It is targeted at beginners and people who migrate from Delphi to Lazarus. The website of C&L (http://www.cul.de/) does not show it yet, but I assume they will update the website shortly. Michael.

Congrats...

apropos: to whom interested...if anyone is willing to start a CC (or GPL or so...) licensed english Lazarus free book for beginners (no Delphi experience required) published on to wikibooks or similar...I'll be italian translation...

:-)

Marco Ciampa +--------------------+ | Linux User #78271 | | FSFE fellow #364 | +--------------------+

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Howard Page-Clark
to Michael Van Canneyt: Just a short message to say that the (German) Lazarus book by C&L is currently in print,…
Michael Van Canneyt wrote 11 lines
Hello, Just a short message to say that the (German) Lazarus book by C&L is currently in print, and will be shipped on March 25. It is targeted at beginners and people who migrate from Delphi to Lazarus. The website of C&L (http://www.cul.de/) does not show it yet, but I assume they will update the website shortly.

Michael

I am sending you this email, rather than replying to the Lazarus list, because I am partly acting on behalf of Detlef Overbeek, who edits the Dutch Blaise Pascal magazine. He and I have recently become acquainted online.
He tells me he has emailed you recently, but received no reply, and so he wonders if you thought his email address "" was a spam source - hence a message from me from a different address. I alerted Detlef to the imminent publication of a German edition of the new Lazarus book, and he was keen to use the resources of the Blaise magazine to help publicise it, and perhaps to help with the production of an English translation. In any event he wants you to know that Blaise Pascal magazine, both Dutch and other language versions, is just as much interested in Lazarus/fpc as in Delphi, and he will feature as much high quality Lazarus material in the magazine as he can.

yours

Howard Page-Clark

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Michael Van Canneyt
to Howard Page-Clark

I replied in private to this, since it was obviously sent to the list by mistake.

Not that there is something to hide here... :-)

Michael.

Howard Page-Clark wrote 39 lines
On 26/2/10 11:03, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > Hello, > > Just a short message to say that the (German) Lazarus book by C&L > is currently in print, and will be shipped on March 25. > > It is targeted at beginners and people who migrate from Delphi to > Lazarus. > > The website of C&L (http://www.cul.de/) does not show it yet, but I assume > they will update the website shortly. Michael I am sending you this email, rather than replying to the Lazarus list, because I am partly acting on behalf of Detlef Overbeek, who edits the Dutch Blaise Pascal magazine. He and I have recently become acquainted online. He tells me he has emailed you recently, but received no reply, and so he wonders if you thought his email address "" was a spam source - hence a message from me from a different address. I alerted Detlef to the imminent publication of a German edition of the new Lazarus book, and he was keen to use the resources of the Blaise magazine to help publicise it, and perhaps to help with the production of an English translation. In any event he wants you to know that Blaise Pascal magazine, both Dutch and other language versions, is just as much interested in Lazarus/fpc as in Delphi, and he will feature as much high quality Lazarus material in the magazine as he can. yours Howard Page-Clark -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

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