Essential Pascal [Paperback]

Marco Cantu (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 15, 2008

Essential Pascal is an introduction to the basic features of the Pascal language, as found in Delphi and other modern development tools, from the best selling author of Mastering Delphi.

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About the Author

Marco Cantu is the best-selling author of the Mastering Delphi series, Delphi 2007 and 2009 handbooks and a prominent experts in the Delphi programming community.

Product Details

• Paperback: 140 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace (April 15, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1440480117
• ISBN-13: 978-1440480119
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,295,443 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Marco Cantu' is the author of the best-selling series Mastering Delphi, plus other books on Delphi and C++. He recently authored self-published books on Delphi 2007, 2009 and 2010.
His areas of expertise include OOP, Delphi, Object-Oriented Architectures, and a number of XML lingos (particularly XSLT). Marco gives frequent training classes and has spoken at dozen of conferences in the US and Europe.
Marco lives in Italy with Lella and their two kids, Benedetta and Jacopo.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for anyone intersted in Delphi or Free Pascal, January 23, 2009

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Some Guy (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essential Pascal (Paperback)

I'm a self taught Delphi developer, and I was pretty convinced that I had at least the fundamentals down. I read this book and was surprised at how much new information I learned.

If you are new to Delphi, Kylix, Free Pascal, or any other dialect of Pascal, then this book is well worth your time. If you are an experienced Pascal programmer, then this book comprises the fundamental understanding of Pascal that you should already have, but may have missed.

I should add (as someone that has followed the Delphi programming community for several years) that Marco Cantu is a well regarded technical expert on this subject. He also has the uncanny ability to take abstract and confusing concepts and explain them in an easy to understand manner.

If you only buy one Delphi/Pascal book, you should buy one written by Marco Cantu (I have several).

Great book!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Light weight, February 14, 2010

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Charles E. Knadler Jr. "math biologist" (Salt Lake City, UT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Essential Pascal (Paperback)

This book was a little light weight for me. I bought the book to assist in porting my applications from Delphi to Free Pascal running on Mac OS/X and Xcode. I wanted a book to serve as a modern, up-to-date reference and overview because I had not used Pascal for several years. It turns out the book is only a printed version of the author's html version and while not useless, it was not as valuable as hoped. My old Borland language manual, Lischner's Delphi in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) or Kernan's Programming and Problem Solving with Delphi were probably more useful for a review and as references. The book is a good introduction to the basics of modern Pascal, but not a good reference manual.