The part I'm most interested in is using Lazarus to full effect with good architecture; I don't think the GUI portion would make a good first (or even second) course in computers/computing.
I would like to see a "Software Architecture" course that used Delphi/FreePascal/Lazarus On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 3:51 AM, Jürgen Hestermann via Lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > Am 2016-10-24 um 12:20 schrieb Michael Schnell via Lazarus: > > On 21.10.2016 11:09, Jürgen Hestermann via Lazarus wrote: > >> What is the use of a program? Entertainment? > > Nowadays in 90% of the usage exactly this. > > Maybe other usage cases are more "important", but still the money is > made with Entertainment. > > There may be a misunderstanding: > I did not ask whether the *purpose* of a program is entertainment > but whether *programming* it has to be entertainment? > The aim of programming should be to get a program running > (as the programmer wants it) not to spend time with > juggling gaudy pictures, icons and videos. > > In the end, it is somehow "entertaining" if a program works > but this requires knowledge about how the programming language works. > Ignoring all facts will never lead to a satisfying programming experience. > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org > http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus >
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