Mastering Delphi 4 [Mass Market Paperback]

Marco Cantu (Author)

Book Description

Series: Mastering | Publication Date: September 11, 1998

This texts introduces Delphi 4's new features and techniques, including secrets of the environment, the programming language, custom components, and Windows 95 programming. It begins with basic programming topics and ends with detailed examples of COM, CORBA and advanced Active-X implementations.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 1247 pages
• Publisher: Sybex Inc; Rev Upd edition (September 11, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782123503
• ISBN-13: 978-0782123500
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.7 x 3.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,933,871 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #42 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Languages & Tools > Borland Delphi

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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent intermediate level book, August 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Mastering Delphi 4 (Mass Market Paperback)

This book does an excellent job of walking the user through all the basics of Delphi and Object Pascal. It does assume some familiarity with Pascal, but if the reader has that, this is an extremely easy to follow book. The examples are useful, and are explained well enough that the reader can easily expand them to meet his own needs

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic primer on Delphi from an experienced OOP view., September 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Mastering Delphi 4 (Mass Market Paperback)

As someone who knew all about the concepts of OOP from a C++ perspective, and was new to world of Delphi, this book was fantastic value. It showed me how to get things done, and how OOP works with Delphi... now I think Delphi is fantastic. I read the first few chapters before attempting anything in Delphi and now that I have started programming in it, use the book as my first reference. Thank you Marco!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Another book that is too complicated, March 22, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Mastering Delphi 4 (Mass Market Paperback)

I'm seriously considering writing my own book on programming, since there is a huge hole to be filled. From what I've seen the majority of books cater to advanced programmers, which is unfair and unfortunate. You can't start in the deep end. It's also like that in other fields as well. If you are new to Delphi don't buy this book, you won't derive much from it. The topics covered obviously deal with more advanced issues. Sharp looking cover though.