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The Little Book Of Delphi will teach you how to program the Object Pascal language in Delphi quickly and easily. The author, Huw Collingbourne, has programmed in Delphi for over 25 years. For over ten years he was the Delphi columnist for PC Plus Magazine in the UK.
This book explains…
- Fundamentals of Delphi
- The Object Pascal language
- Object Orientation
- Variables, Types, Constants
- Operators and Tests
- for loops and while loops
- Procedures and Functions
- Parameters and Arguments
- Arrays and Lists
- String Operations
- case Statements
- User-defined Types
- Constructors and Methods
- Creating and Freeing Objects
- Inheritance and Encapsulation
- Virtual and Overridden Methods
- File-handling
- Text files and Binary files
- Streaming and Serialization
- Errors and Exceptions
…and much more
The Little Book Of Delphi gives you just the stuff you really need to get straight to the heart of text adventure programming without all the fluff and padding.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1 – Getting Started
2 – Fundamentals of Pascal
3 – Procedures and Functions
4 –Types and Operators
5 – Loops, Arrays and Strings
6 – User Defined Types and File IO
7 – Object Orientation
8 – Class Hierarchies
9 – Errors, Exceptions and Bugs
10 – The Adventure Continues
Appendix