Subj : Learning Pascal
To : John Guillory
From : Darryl Dunnaway
Date : Thu Jul 15 2010 11:12 pm
Re: Learning Pascal
By: John Guillory to Darryl Dunnaway on Thu Jul 15 2010 07:42 pm
> > I just bought 4 different books on pascal off of Amazon the other day so
> > could learn this language. I've been playing around with FreePascal and
> > trying out a few things. So far it doesn't seem to be all that difficult
> > Anyone got any major pointers on what I need to learn to write a few simp
> If you have any kind of programming experience I can probably help you do
> about anything you need to do as long as you stick to either Turbo Pascal
> or Delphi Syntax. Virtual Pascal preferred as it's my main squeeze. ;-)
I've been playing with FreePascal with both the console IDE and the Lazarus
windows IDE.
> > windows programs?
> If your doing console programs or using the graph unit to do graphics on
> windows, etc. cool. If your doing the windowproc method, find someone el
> I've got samples I can dig up for win16, you may find samples in free
> pascal, but beyond that I'm not your person... Not my cup of tea!
I'll most probably be doing strictly console work until I get a good grasp of
the language. Then I'm looking at writing a couple of small apps for myself.
As I come up with ideas for apps I write them down. Most of them would be
small, specific, and most likely do one thing only, but do it fast and well.
> If you stick to console mode, you can do a lot of powerful things in pascal.
> Depending on your flavor of pascal also depends on how well you can interfac
> with other languages. If you use Virtual Pascal and use VPSysLow for your m
> file i/o stuff, rather than the dos unit, you have added ability to write
> programs that are OS/2, Windows, and Linux compatible with a single source
> code....
FreePascal has that same portability. It's one of the reasons I chose it to
work with. Write once, compile for many.
> But what are you looking to do? Good to see some fresh ideas here....
I've got several things that I want to do, but first I need to learn the
language. Like I stated earlier, I've been playing with it, done a couple of
tutorials I found on the net, and I'll be reading the books I purchased just
as soon as they get here.
I figure I'll start with the easy stuff first, like the Hello World example I
gave and then move on into the more "dramatic" stuff like the Windows API as
I gain knowledge and practice.
It's been years since I really looked at any code other than PHP, but so far
I've been able to follow it. I'm looking forward to it.
**On a side note**
My wife thinks I'm nuts, called me a geek (normal), and rolled her eyes (also
normal). So I wrote her a little program that printed the sentence:
"I may be a geek, but you married me."
...about 10,000 times. :)
I can't figure out why she changed her mind and called me a nerd.
