On 01/22/13 11:52, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: > > The best introductory Turbo Pascal book I've ever read was "Mastering Turbo > Pascal 6" from Scott D. Palmer spanish edition, I remember how amazed I was > after learning how pointers work, and how fast my apps became after replacing > arrays by linked lists, etc. Of course this is a very old book, focused > mostly on procedural programming (it has a couple of oop chapter, though). >
Yeah, that was a good book. > > Apart from those, I recommend reading not so Pascal specific books, but > application design in general, like "Patterns of Enterprise Application > Architecture" from Martin Fowler. Very good advice! I would simply learn the syntax. So read the Delphi or FPC Language Reference Guides. Once you have the basics, start writing code - that is the best way to learn. The "Test Driven Development" book by Kent Beck (great book) had a brilliant idea. If Kent wanted to learn a new language, he tried to implement a Unit Testing framework. By the time he had a usable testing framework, he knew pretty much everything the language had to offer. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Test-Driven-Development-Addison-Wesley-Signature/dp/0321146530 Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
