Suggested books / eBooks?

[Mitchell92]

Hello again,

Are there any suggested books or eBooks?

Would those I've seen online on Delphi still bee relevant for Free Pascal / Lazarus?

[sam707]

hi,
may I suggest you a cool link
http://lazplanet.blogspot.fr

[sam707]

If you got delphi simple examples, most of them will compile/work by specifying

{$mode delphi}

instead of {$mode objfpc}

just after the line

Program MyProg;

at the top of your 1st source file

also you need to do the same after the
Unit MyUnit;

in each unit file

regards

http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progse74.html

[trayres]

I suggest this course:
https://www.udemy.com/learn-to-program-with-pascal/

It is currently $27, for multiple hours of video content, it comes with a book written by the course instructor, and is a *brilliant* start to Lazarus/FreePascal.

[Thaddy]

Marco Cantu's free ebook "Essential Pascal" is still a good language introduction.
Also comes with sourcecode that is mostly FPC compatible. Note the sourcecode as is contains some errors that need fixing (also for newer Delphi versions) but most of the code compiles as is.

ebook:http://www.marcocantu.com/epascal/EssentialPascal.zip
Sources: http://www.marcocantu.com/epascal/epascal4code.zip

This ebook is also translated by volunteers in different languages.
See http://www.marcocantu.com/epascal/default.htm

Also see http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=18132.0

On that last topic there is a link to one of the most important advanced books on Object Pascal ever written:
http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/142043/The_Tomes_Of_Delphi_Algorithms_And_Data_Structures.pdf

Every serious Object Pascal programmer should have that. (I am lucky enough to also have it in print).

The sourcecode for Algorithms and Data structures is here: http://www.boyet.com/Code/ToDADS_source.zip
You also need this: http://www.boyet.com/Code/PSProcs.zip because that is missing and you need to implement (or remove relevant code):
function FmtLoadStr(Ident: Integer; const Args: array of const): string;//  You can use a dummy for that, btw.
function FindStringResource(Ident: Integer): string;  // If you dummie it, you won't need this.
Because FPC doesn't know about these (yet).

And some bugreports about the code are resolved here: http://www.boyet.com/Articles/Chapters/CD-ROMSourceCode.html
I added a TDDefine.inc to replace the original one to work with FPC3. It includes an example of the required dummy code. Makes most of the code work as-is.

[Windsurfer]

Thanks Thaddy, reading this will keep me occupied for a while.

[Old_Dog]

hi,
may I suggest you a cool link
http://lazplanet.blogspot.fr

Some interesting stuff there.

[sam707]

hi,
may I suggest you a cool link
http://lazplanet.blogspot.fr

Some interesting stuff there.

thanks!

[jwdietrich]

Do you know the wiki article http://wiki.freepascal.org/Pascal_and_Lazarus_Books_and_Magazines ?

[Zoran]

Just curious - are these two distinct books or different editions of the same:
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16799439W/Learn_to_Program_using_Lazarus
http://www.blaisepascal.eu/subscribers/UK/UK_Book_Department_LearnToProgramUsingLazarus.html

Edit: Obviously, different editions of the same book.

[jwdietrich]

Edit: Obviously, different editions of the same book.

Yes.