Re: [Lazarus] Fast-small utilities for common javascript tasks, anyone?

2016-10-12 Thread Leonardo M. Ramé via Lazarus
El 08/10/16 a las 05:18, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus escribió: Hi Michael, could you post jsmin.pas here?. I added it to FPC SVN. packages/fcl-js, unit jsminifier. I included an example program. Improvements and suggestions welcome. Michael. Thanks Michael, that's great!. BTW, I'

Re: [Lazarus] TDBEdit, TStringField Size, DataSize, DisplayWidth and MaxLength

2016-10-12 Thread Tony Whyman via Lazarus
On 11/10/16 19:21, LacaK via Lazarus wrote: I am aware of it. I have not added all other MBCS because ! I doubt, which are realy used nowadays. My guess is that UTF-8 is far most used / supported as client character set. No problem to add them if there will be real demand from users ... Perhaps

Re: [Lazarus] Fast-small utilities for common javascript tasks, anyone?

2016-10-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus
On Wed, 12 Oct 2016, Leonardo M. Ramé via Lazarus wrote: El 08/10/16 a las 05:18, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus escribió: Hi Michael, could you post jsmin.pas here?. I added it to FPC SVN. packages/fcl-js, unit jsminifier. I included an example program. Improvements and suggestions

[Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-12 Thread Adrian De Armas via Lazarus
Hello everyone, I am a professor of "introduction to programming". Currently we are working with matlab and c. Today I had a meeting about doing the module more interesting to the students. Currently we teach algorithms making console applications and usually I receive questions like "Why don't we

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-12 Thread Paul Breneman via Lazarus
On 10/12/2016 01:10 PM, Adrian De Armas via Lazarus wrote: Hello everyone, I am a professor of "introduction to programming". Currently we are working with matlab and c. Today I had a meeting about doing the module more interesting to the students. Currently we teach algorithms making console ap

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-12 Thread Chris Kelling via Lazarus
I'll tell you, after years of doing top down modular programming, it took me a little time to adjust to event driven programing. It wasn't until I used a FOR loop on a form to collect the input that I realized what the difference is. For a beginning student, you can approach it in two ways

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-12 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk via Lazarus
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Chris Kelling via Lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > I'll tell you, after years of doing top down modular programming, it took > me a little time to adjust to event driven programing. It wasn't until I > used a FOR loop on a form to collect the inp

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-12 Thread Tony Whyman via Lazarus
When I read your post ,it sent me back to read the Introduction to Nicklaus Wirth's original "Pascal user Manual and Report" where the opening paragraph says: "The development of the language Pascal is based on two principal aims. The first is to make available a language suitable to teach pro

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-12 Thread LacaK via Lazarus
I would also caution against starting on GUI programming too early. +1 (few years ago I have teached programing on school in our city. I am not a techaer, but school lost teacher and was not able to find someone else) I have used FreePascal + Lazarus for my courses, but we have used only proj

Re: [Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

2016-10-12 Thread Martin Schreiber via Lazarus
On Wednesday 12 October 2016 20:10:50 Adrian De Armas via Lazarus wrote: > Today I had a meeting about doing the module more interesting to the > students. Currently we teach algorithms making console applications and > usually I receive questions like "Why don't we do something more modern?". > I