Essential Delphi New Edition, the First Chapter

February 26, 2020

Essential Delphi New Edition, the First Chapter

I've just published a second, incremental version of Essential Delphi 10.3 including the first chapter and the beginning of the second one.

As I mentioned two weeks ago, in the occasion of Delphi's 25th anniversary I decided to go back to the roots and publish a book introducing the Delphi IDE based on content of my old Mastering Delphi volumes with additional material covering more recent changes. The ebook is fully edited for version 10.3 of Delphi.

Notice that the focus in not on developers with many years of experience with Delphi, but mostly new and less experienced users. But I'm sure that even those with more confidence and knowledge will find features here and there that they are not aware of.

At this time I've completed the initial review of the first chapter and just started the second chapter:

Chapter 1: A Form is a Window

Chapter 2: Highlights of the Delphi IDE

The current file is available in PDF format at http://www.marcocantu.com/edelphi/EssentialDelphi_1033_20200226.pdf

(Please don't even look to the hosting page, www.marcocantu.com/edelphi/, as this has not been updated in a long time)

I plan to keep publishing frequent updates, even with few new pages each time. Feedback is welcome, over email or as comments to this blog post.

posted by marcocantu @ 9:48AM | 3 Comments [0 Pending]

some small corrections:

 Hi Marco,

I just read a few chapters and found two things that I think are wrong:

The first is a simple grammar error or typo in the first sentece of the first chapter: It should say "most concepts" rather than "most concept".

The second one is in "The Textual Description of the Form":
It says "... As soon as you save the file, it will be turned back into a binary file ...."
This is of couse no noger true (as you say yourself earlier n the chapter).

Comment by Thomas Mueller [https://blog.dummzeuch.de] on February 26, 14:20