Hi all, welcome to my 1st tutorial, which will give you the opportunity to learn programming, in the Pascal PL.
- Introduction:
Pascal is a programming language, designed by Niklaus Emil Wirth, in 1968. The language is old, yet powerful. It's main purpose is to teach procedural programming. It's the best language, for learning programming. You might find some articles, saying that Pascal is not for serious programming. Well, Pascal evolved, to become a powerful language nowadays. The famous Delphi, is an embacadero product which come with a GUI(Graphic user interface) RAD(Rapid Application Development) IDE(Integrated Development Environment), for a Pascal-like programming language. I say Pascal-like, because it's based on Pascal, yet very evolved, it allow Data-Base access, Object Oriented Programming, and a lot of other features, that you might find in any of modern languages like - Tools:
To make things easier, we will use a Delphi-like product, but free and Open Source, our main and unique tool, is Lazarus, Grab it from http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org and install it. Lazarus uses FPC(Free Pascal Compiler), it should be already installed with Lazarus, since Lazarus it self is made by FPC. - Our interface:
You might find the interface, weird, but it is not. Lazarus is used mostly for Graphical Application Devlopment. However, we won't be able to make GUI applications, until we learn Pascal. To get started, go to "project" -> "new project" -> "program". Then save your project any where you want. - Magic Words:
As for know,you should know all this keyword shortcuts, because I'm going to use them:- GUI: Graphic User Interface.
- RAD: Rapid Application Development.
- IDE: Integrated Development Environment.
- App: Application.
- Apps: Applications.
- Win: Windows.
