Customer Reviews

Delphi 3 for Dummies

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Well, maybe this book is not for professionals, but it's wonderful for beginners! It's easy to teach object-oriented programming with it.

This book provides a personal and hands-on approach to Delphi that very other people could manage. It is informtive and gets you working straight away, no long tedious introductions for the techhie. But a cover disk would have been helpful for the blocks of code.

This book is full or errors; most are typos or text from a prevoous edition not updated but a few are real stoppers for any beginner let alone a dummy. Object Pascal code is often presented without enough explanation for one to write similar code. No example disk is a futher deficiency. Beginning Delphi 2 by Peter Wright is far superior. On the positive side the tone of the book is pleasent, the author's outlook is broad and helpful and with editing and an example disk it would be a good starting text.

Excellent book for Turbo Pascal programmer as an introduction to Delphi programming. Explains better than Borland itself how to
use it's own GUI.

This book really teaches nothing. All it does is tell you how to draw components on the form and nothing else really. No OOP coding which is what I really wanted to learn about go from VB to Delphi but no, none of that. Try another book if you want to step up from dummy status.