Appeal for the ebook release of the Lazarus guidebook

[marcov]

blaisepascal seem to be working on a new pascal book
and it will have a PDF version

https://twitter.com/DetlefOverbeek/status/390841922635317249

Not related to the lazarus book. Afaik the Dutch HCC Pascal foundation had an
introductionary pascal course. Probably they are translating that and thinking
about publishing it.

(which is not that bad, there are not much up to date introductionary Pascal books anymore)

[sam707]

may i show you there the book where I learnt Pascal

some of you are going to find it funny, or cool, and could get some historical points.

I found it on the TRS-80 Revival Site under one of its referenced links.

It's totally legal to share it.

Enjoy

https://archive.org/stream/Pascal_1983_Alcor#page/n0/mode/2up

You will find out into that book, page 16, why historically , comments are enclosed by (* *) instead of { }

SIMPLY because these days, keyboards with '{' and '}' were too much expensive so the pascal compilers authors made replacements with (* and *).

same for arrays with the '[' and ']' you could use '(.' and '.)' as replacements (those last ones has vanish from syntax I guess.

anyway that eBook -containing a tutorial to pascal (move the bottom pdf hand to position 135 to access it)-  could be helpful for beginners to learn pascal programming around simple console applications.

[zbyna]

Time for somebody to whip out the old scanner and OCR software then.   [just kidding of course]

Somebody from Korea  probably  heard you.
http://trans.onionmixer.net/mediawiki/index.php?title=LazarusCompleteGuide#.EC.83.89.EC.9D.B8.28Index.29

I bought the book in March and I sometimes copy source code examples from this url.

[lkhalid]

time for somebody to open his favourite text editor and begins to write a new lazarus more complete free ebook 

[eny]

I bought the book in March and I sometimes copy source code examples from this url.

Huh?
You didn't get a legit download link for the code (fragments)?
Or some form of media with the book containing all the sample code?

[zbyna]

I bought the book in March and I sometimes copy source code examples from this url.

Huh?
You didn't get a legit download link for the code (fragments)?
Or some form of media with the book containing all the sample code?

I received three cd with lazarus for mac, lin and win but no source code for examples in electronic form. But the book helped me very much.

[WickedDum]

sam707 - Remember UCSD Pascal??  ;-)

zbyna - wish I could read Korean...  I hope the new Lazarus Complete Guide I purchased yesterday has code samples!  I have to wait for shipping...   

Yes, y'all, it is a bit expensive - and I am one very frugal SOB.  But...I need help with the IDE.  It should keep me from posting Dum questions on this forum...   

I sure hope it's not full of readln and writeln.  I've had my fill of that for the last few months.  I need assistance learning the GUI for apps, not for consoles...  And understanding the structure of the IDE and the resultant code.  It seems it's full of 3-4 line procedures!!

A free electronic version?  Never happen.  Buy the book.  It's still A LOT cheaper than XE5...  about 98% cheaper!!

Anyone have any experience with PACKT's Getting Started with Lazarus IDE?

Delphi Basics 7.3 is really too basic for me.  I'm a bit disappointed, but it may grow to be a useful reference.

[edvard]

re: OP Appeal for ebook

Not me.
If there's a book to be had, I'd prefer it be printed on paper.  Webpages and online help are great for looking up specific subjects and code examples (more code examples, please!), but books that take you step-by-step through the language or the tools work best for me if I can absorb them away from the computer as well as next to it.  As good as Mr. Azeem's book "Start Programming Using Object Pascal" is, I still had to print it out to get the most out of it.

Just my two cents.

[BlueIcaro]

Another free ebooks to start in free pascal:

http://freepascalanswers.wordpress.com/2012/09/02/freepascallazarus-book-startprog/

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/pascal/pascal_tutorial.pdf

/BlueIcaro

[exdatis]

Also:
ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/docs-pdf/ref.pdf

[JuhaManninen]

Anyone have any experience with PACKT's Getting Started with Lazarus IDE?

I have. Not really recommended. I feel stupid because I spent lots of time and energy for reviewing that book.
See details here:
  http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,20595.msg119355.html#msg119355