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.

LOL

Darryl
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