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This book teaches distance-learning students how to program in Delphi, a major computer language used to design a variety of programs.

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Good start

This is a good book to get started with whether you are familiar with programming on not. I worked my way through the book from the beginning but stopped eventually when I realized I was getting a bit board and needed bigger challenges. I also use it as a reference occasionally.

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Best Delphi book for beginners!

If you are new to programming, and want to learn Delphi... This is your book.

I found the book interesting, and very well structured. It can take any beginner and make them a programmer in a few weeks.

The problem with most computer books for beginners, is that they are written by programmers that already know how to program. So many minor details that confuse beginners are often left out. Besides, this book is really fun.

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Received in good condition and in two weeks time

I am happy regarding the leading time to receive the book, I obtained it within two weeks' time.

The carton packaging is okay as the book was in good condition on reception.

I will definitely continue to buy books online via amazon.com

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Written by three members of the UNISA Department of Information Systems, the book teaches distance-learning students how to program in Delphi, a major computer language used to design a variety of programs.

Customer Review :

Good Intro to Delphi, but not great

In general, I recommend this book. It is an easy-to-use introduction to Delpi, Visual IDEs, and event-driven programming. As an experienced programmer (FORTRAN, COBOL, C++), I found the book a little boring, but I definitely learned some Pascal and got a mercifully gentle introduction (which I needed) to Visual IDEs and event-driven programming with Delphi. The book was written as a text for an introductory programming course using Delphi, which brings me to my only concern. The book does not do a good job of preparing students for a more advanced course. Important concepts are explained only by analogy and the analogies are often misleading. This could present a problem for a beginning student who might want to move on to Java or (Visual) C++, which are notoriously unforgiving of ignorance or misunderstanding. If you are an instructor considering this book, be careful to include rigorous explanations of basic concepts in your lectures. Otherwise, the book is quite serviceable and I reiterate my recommendation.

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The best option for the beginner.

Excellent introduction to Delphi programming! What a pity it came to my hands so late! During my recent graduate studies I had to develop software working under Windows using Pascal and, since I studied computer programming several years ago, it was really painful for me. I just couldn't get it with this new stuff (new for me): event driven programming, developing GUIs, etc. I tried Marco Cantu's book, but I found it was not really written for people with little knowledge, like me. Thank God I could finally solve my problems, but it's was really hard. After all this, I read about "Introducing Delphi Programming: Theory through Practise" in Amazon Web pages, and decided to buy it, just to see what it had. To my surprise, this book had everything I needed and much more! It is a very well organized, progressive, and comprehensive textbook for the beginner in Delphi programming. It includes lots of solved problems that give you that know how a novice programmer like me doesn't have and needs. I sincerely recommend it as a fine book to start with Delphi programming. You can use it in classrooms or by yourself. It surely is the best option for the beginner! I can tell you, because I was one of them.

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Practical and Effective Teaching of Delphi Programming

For several years, I searched for ways to learn to use Delphi to create language-analysis programs. No courses are offered in Atlanta. All of the "learn to program with Delphi" books that I found on Amazon are horrible in similar ways: (a) They promise to start at the beginning but can't figure out where the beginning is. (b) They make huge leaps between levels. (c) They do not have enough practical activities to help the learn understand and apply features in Delphi. (d) They give exercise/practice activities that require knowledge not presented in the book.

I had given up. Then, over the 2003 Christmas holidays, I decided to check around the Internet one last time for Delphi materials. I stumbled over an online course offered through the University of South Africa that is built around "Introducing Delphi Programming: Theory through Practice." The example materials for the course demonstrated a very practical set of explanations and exercises. So, I ordered the book through Amazon-UK because it was not at that time available in the U.S.

"Introducting Delphi programming: Theory through Practice" turned out to be outstanding: it begins where I needed to begin; it progresses smoothly from task to task; it is built around sets of practical exercises and practice activities; explanations are clear and well organized. It is the best "how to" book of any type that I've ever used.

In addition, there's an online course offered through the University of South Africa. I've signed up and am progressing through the book at the schedule required for the course; the schedule helps to keep me working away at learning Delphi in the midst of a busy life. The course also offers email contact with 2 of the authors of the book (Gelderblom and Miller) for help with the activities.

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Editorial Review :

Provides a complete & user-friendly introduction to programming with this accessible, prize-winning language. Harnesses the unique nature of Delphi to enable the reader to acquire fundamental programming skills while learning to design & produce attractive Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). Paper. DLC: Delphi (Computer file).

Customer Review :

Why so pricey

This book is for version 3. Borland has released version 8. Why isnt this book cheaper?
A book on AutoCAD 12 would sell for $3.00.

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good examples but slow and missing important info

it may be good for the novice, but as i already know 3 other languages i found it slow and missing alot of important information. It goes straight in with programing examples and doesnt provide a good foundation for understanding how delphi programs are structured. The tiny chapter on objects was very poor. Also they never explained how find the info on the components. I think the fact that delhpi is so easy to use may make this book seem better than it is. It is a bit like giving people instructions without ever helping them to undestand what they are doing. I expect beginers will like it because it avoids the in depth explanations and is more about trying out examples.

If you are already a proficient programer then you will find this book far to long. It could be easily sumarised it into 50 pages and still contain all the info. If you want to learn about Object Orientated programing forget this book. The thing that most anoyed me was the fact that they had code snippets that were numbered as if from line 1 when the code was not from the start of the program. To the novice programer this could be very confusing. And they had snippets with no line numbering. Are they purposly trying to confuse people.

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Oldie but goodie

There is not a huge number of Delphi books out there on the market and even fewer for newbies to Delphi. This book is not aimed at advanced programmers or those who need to learn the latest and greatest arcane features of Delphi. Ideally you should have had some exposure to visual programming and the event driven model of some kind such as Delphi or Visual Basic.

What I like most about this book is that it helps you hit the Delphi ground running with small but very functional projects that go way beyond the typical "Hello World" found in most programming books that then force you to read through 1,000 pages before you can move on to the next level. The skill set you learn from this book along with another reference book will get you much closer and faster to building your own projects. Worth every penny.

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Excellent For Beginner

If you have never programmed in Turbo Pascal, than you should almost certainly get a copy of this book. It does indeed teach Delphi from grounds up and you will learn a great deal.

If you are fully conversant with Pascal Syntax and structure, you might gain something reading through this book, but I do believe that you will gain more by reading through Tom Swan's book Delphi Bible followed by Charles Calvert Delphi Unleashed

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At last an introductory DELPHI BOOK for absolute beginners!

DISCOVER DELPHI by S.Williams and S.Walmsley is REALLY the book that allows to an absolute beginner without any programming training, to carry out a first program, simple, but very interesting, without more than to read their first 10 pages. And you understand all that has been making! First practice and after theory, is not a bad system. I recommend all person that wants to begin in Delphi in a self taught way, their reading and to work the exposed programs. This will provide him a solid formation to enter later in more advanced books.

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