Delphi

Phaedrus · 08-17-2004, 09:39 PM

Hi everyone. I was looking at starting coding (again) and I heard Delphi was the way to go. I got the complier and all that and I was wondering if any of you could point me to some Basic tutorials.

Belisarius · 08-18-2004, 02:10 AM

Sorry, never heard of it.

Phaedrus · 08-18-2004, 04:14 AM

Never heard of Delphi? Goodness Gracious Me. I thought it was odd it didnt have its own forums, but I didnt think people wouldnt have even heard of it. My god Man, I mean, GEEZ! eh.

However I digress.

Belisarius · 08-18-2004, 04:37 AM

Well (and this is after having just googled Delphi), as a Java coder there really isn't much reason to look at Borland for anything. Between NetBeans and Eclipse, we had all the IDE tools we need.

sde · 08-18-2004, 04:44 AM

we used to have a delphi forum in here, but no one ever used it. if we had more delphi coders around, i'd bring it back... but it's not very common now.

why do you choose delphi?

Phaedrus · 08-18-2004, 04:56 AM

I asked a friend. He seems to know it well and recommended it as a first language. Frankly what would help me learn would be a most basic of the basic lexicon. But those basic terms wont be hard to find about the place.

I was just readin this as something that I managed to turn up.

DavH27 · 08-18-2004, 05:14 AM

Isn't Delphi a certain species of Dolphins?

If we think about it, if we learn programmign syntax of one language then we only need to purchase a reference manual for another language and we've instantly migrated!

sde · 08-18-2004, 05:21 AM

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Originally posted by DavH27
If we think about it, if we learn programmign syntax of one language then we only need to purchase a reference manual for another language and we've instantly migrated!

sort of, if you are using a language that uses c style syntax.

Phaedrus · 08-18-2004, 05:25 AM

ARG!~

lol.I'f I think really hard I think I can understand most of what you just said.

So Am I to understand that C is fairly well a standard among programming languages.

Phaedrus · 08-18-2004, 06:15 AM

I'm unsure how to proceed. On the one hand, I'd rather learn an object oriented language first (Can anyone suggest an easy one?) But on the other, Programming is kinda like a closed loop, its difficult to initially get in so you can start making progress. So maybe Delphi would be a good place to get a grounding since its all Visual and all that.

Belisarius · 08-18-2004, 06:18 AM

C, C++, Java, and C# are all based off the syntax of C. That's not to say there aren't great differences, but the layout of the code is generally the same. Pascal has its own syntax.

Basically, if you see curly braces, boolean operations that consist of == and !=, you've got a C-syntax language.

DavH27 · 08-18-2004, 06:24 AM

Something 'visual' that would be good for starting off would be Visual Basic 6. Make sure it is the 6 version and not it's scarier vb.NET brother.

sde · 08-18-2004, 06:37 AM

keep in mind that php and javascript are also c style stynax.

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vb is a perfect example of something NOT c style. in vb your lines end with nothing ( or a new line )

c style syntax, lines ends with a semi colon

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vb uses: if something then

c style uses: if(something){ }

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that is all i really mean. vb is a very 'wordy' language, and i don't know other languages with similar syntax ( well maybe basic ) .. on the other hand, there are LOTS of languages that follow the style of coding that c uses .. php, perl, java, javascript, actionscript, c++, & c# ( there's more i can't think of )

make more sense?

DavH27 · 08-18-2004, 06:51 AM

Well that's probably why vb was so easy for me because I learned BASIC at 13 ...

But yeah, good luck with Dalpha, I mean Delphy, I mean Dulphon... damnit... delpont... DELPHI. Got it finally.

Belisarius · 08-18-2004, 07:23 AM

Yeah, I forgot the semi-colon. Using them has become such second nature it's become a "they're just there" deal.

Yeah, I keep putting PHP in a differnent category even though it really is a C language because it isn't a C++ language like Java and C# are (it uses "." for concatination, and "->" to reference a method on an object).