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August 26, 2016

A Free Delphi with Free Training

Embarcadero is organizing a Delphi Boot Camp to introduce Delphi to new developers, and giving away the Starter Edition for free alongside, so that anyone can get the basic version of the software and start using it right away. But you need to act now!

On the week from September 5 to 9th, Embarcadero is organizing a Delphi training course, 2 hours each day, with lessons given by some of the product experts (myself included, I'll cover the Delphi programming language). This is not meant for existing developers, but for new developers approaching the language -- or people who haven't used it in a while. Bootcamp information at at http://embt.co/2016delphicamp

So the invite is not mostly for the readers of this blog, but all of their friends interested in programming, so that they can see what Delphi is and start playing with it for free. In fact, as part of the deal there is a unique and time limited offer to order a copy of Delphi Starter (limited to Windows 32 bit and with a license for non business users, but fairly powerful) with a 100% discount, as you can see at https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter/promotional-download. Again, this offer will be available only for 2 weeks, so tell your friends now.

Last but not least, as a registered user of the free Delphi Starter you'll be able to download the PDF of my Object Pascal Handbook, covering the Delphi language in details.

So in other words anyone interested in programming and in Delphi can get software, training, and a book -- all that's needed to get started with the product. That's a pretty amazing offer, and something that has not been done in the past. Delphi is an incredibly powerful tool, mostly hidden from view. This is a big chance to get it spread out a bit more.

posted by marcocantu @ 7:11AM | 10 Comments [0 Pending]

10 Comments

A Free Delphi with Free Training

Personally I feel this may be to little to late, however, I really hope I 
am wrong

Comment by Donovan Boddy on August 26, 12:01

Brilliant idea!

 Very good marketing action. The more such an ideas
the better. I will re-post to all my connections.

Comment by Yuri Yolkin on August 27, 03:15

A Free Delphi with Free Training

 I do not agree with Donovan. I think this is great
opportunity for everyone (especially the free Starter
for developers and increased sales for Embt) and I
hope the Delphi community will grow again. And I am
not saying this only because I am 3rd party extensions
developer (proud creator of RAD & Installer :) but
because I am using Delphi for ages (since high school
in cca 2001) and I find it really easy to learn and
useful language for developing various small utils
(and large systems too of course!)

Comment by Tomas [http://unsigned.sk] on August 27, 11:33

A Free Delphi with Free Training

 First try I got:
Operation error
Cannot load data from the server:
Problem extracting compressed file.
Downloaded file seems to be corrupted.
Second attempt succeeded. Really happy for this 
opportunity, I am a hobby Delphi user and am stuck 
on XE2. I have always paid around4-500 Euro for 
upgrade, but the price went through the roof recently. 
And uprade only possible from XE6 anyway. Free, 
on the other hand, is good. I like free!

Comment by Andy on August 27, 22:23

Object Pascal Handbook?

 You wrote, that your Object Pascal Handbook should be 
downloadable, but it was not for a friend of mine. I gave it to him, 
because you announced officially, that he should be eligible for it, but  
it should be fixed for other users.

I think the cause for the problem is, that 'C++Builder 10.1 Berlin 
Starter Named User Promo Edition' is in the list of eligible licenses, 
but 'Delphi 10.1 Berlin Starter Named User Promo Edition' is not.

Comment by Sebastian Jänicke [] on August 29, 05:37

A Free Delphi with Free Training

Sebastian for downloading the handbook there are actually two links 
in CodeCentral. One is not always working, depending on the actual 
license (some free licences do't apply), the other is fairly open. They 
are cross linked...

Comment by Marco Cantu [http://www.marcocantu.com] on August 29, 08:10

Does it support 3rd packages?

Does the Starter edition allow me to install any 3rd party packages, 
including IDE experts such as GExperts, and other design-time 
components?

Comment by Edwin Yip [https://truesimplesoft.com] on August 30, 07:39

A Free Delphi with Free Training

In general the Starter edition allows third party packages, but some of 
that might not work properly, due to missing features in the base 
product, compared to the Professional edition.

Comment by Marco Cantu [http://www.marcocantu.com] on August 30, 08:18

Object Pascal Handbook downloads

Thank you, I found the submission you meant (30586 links to 30605), 
so it was the wrong version.

It might be useful to add these links to submission 30018 too, which 
is (as I know now) the old version for Delphi 10, not the updated 
version for Delphi 10.1. But if you don't know, that this updated 
version exists separately... ;-)

Comment by Sebastian Jänicke on August 30, 08:46

What about Database connections?

Delphi Starter is a good approach of marketing, but do not provide 
Database connection support. Why?

Comment by Fab Jason on August 31, 20:25

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