I recently responded to a question on the community board
asking about an fpc book by recommending a Turbo Pascal
book by Jeff Duntemann. His book started me out as a Pascal
programmer in 1989 and I still find these old books useful from
time to time.
I have two by him:
Turbo Pascal from Square One
The Complete Borland Pascal
Mr. Duntemann has also written other programming books and
was employed by Borland for a while as a technical writer. I have
found his books to be the best available for learning Pascal.
When I responded to the board question it started a train of
thought that resulted me in contacting Mr. Duntemann about writing
a book on FPC. To my (pleased) surprise I found him provisionally
enthusiastic for the project.(He hasn't made his mind up yet).
He has the following questions for the community.
POSTED WITH HIS PERMISSION.
1. What OS is most-used for Free Pascal? Windows? Linux?
2. What libraries do most people use for console (i.e.,
"terminal" or text-mode) apps? I dislike ncurses; is
there a better way?
3. Does anybody really use Free Pascal to write Win32
apps?
4. Do people make heavy use of Free Pascal objects?
These are important questions, because I want to bring
newcomers up to speed with the tools and OSes they're
most likely to use as they get better.
I will probably release the rewritten book as a free
ebook, and offer printed copies of the book through
Lulu.com, where I publish a number of other things now.
See:
http://www.lulu.com/copperwood
I don't expect to make much money on the project; I made
my money on the book back in 1993 when it was first run.
I love Pascal and would like to see my book still
available to Pascal people.
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