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Mastering Delphi 3: With CDROM

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Very easy to read. Marco takes you through Delphi from it's roots in Object Pascal. Marco's a very funny guy in person and it comes through in his code. Entertaining and educational. Has beginning material that you won't find in Mastering Delphi 4.

if you are new to delphi but have experience on programming concepts I really can recommend this one. after reading this book you know the basics and are prepared buying a book specialiced on databases or internet programming or client server programming (whatever you are interested in) because this advanced topics are not really coverd in detail. for a beginner on delphi (NOT on programming) it is a good introduction to delphi .......says Major Tom

This book does a terrific job of introducing the basics of Delphi 3. But weighing at over 1000 pages I had thought that there would be a lot more information about the new Delphi technologies like remote BDE and the new Internet stuff, but instead he just adds a comment about the subject being beyond the scope of the book. If you're new to Delphi, it's pretty good, if you're experienced I'd give it a pas

I bought this book after trying to make do with 'Special Edition: Using Delphi 3'. I found the Pascal language coverage extensive. This book on the whole, is excellent for beginners. Its OK as reference. The Index is kind of inadequate but you can manage.

So far I havent seen a better book than this one on Delphi. I enjoy reading it. I just hope that the author will write a compatible book on C++ Builder

This is a nice book for beginners or programmers at the intermediate level, but it doesn't cover anything too advanced. It's not quite "mastering" Delphi 3. Also, maybe they've fixed it, but I purchased this book right after it was published and the index is completely wrong. The topics listed in the index are correct, but the page numbers it points you to is completely incorrect, which renders the book about useless as a "quick reference".

I have taken a major part in the translation of this book to Hungarian, and I really liked its friendly and comprehensive language. Of course, the book does not reveal all the in-depth secrets of Delphi, but gives a perfect overall view, and makes you ready for furter exploring (on your own, or with the help of other books).

The book is almost an identical copy of the previous versions. The author wanted to cover as much issues as he could and therefore the OLE/COM issue has only about 100 pages ( not very good ) and the Tools APIhas ONLY 20 PAAGEA!!!!!!

This book covers many of the important aspects on Delphi although if you're interested in Database programming you're better off with Henderson's Client/Server book. However, the book is nothing for beginners because it does not cover basic features so much in depth and is not very explanatory, but for the immediate programmer it is really good, but it can sometimes cover really basic stuff which is a little bit annoying. For the expert programmer it can provide som useful tricks but it wouldn't be worth the money.

This book covers a lot of subjects. It was my first Delphi book, coming from Foxpro. The examples were C++ oriented; this was a bit tough, but with effort, even I could understand most everything. This is the best I've seen after haunting a couple bookstores. It'll probably take at least one more book to feel some significant degree of mastery, but in the meantime, there's lots of good stuff out there in magazines and on the web.