To quote one of our students, "Delphi must be the easiest programming language." How quickly you learn it is, of course, dependent on you. It is a very powerful language and mastering it will take time, depending on your background and experience.

Whether you are an absolute beginner or a more seasoned Delphi developer, you will benefit from this Delphi Pascal video series. It will walk you through the Object Pascal language step-by-step. You will find enough theory to build your knowledge and understanding of the Delphi programming language. And, you will learn by doing through the multiple examples built step-by-step in front of you.

Every Delphi CBT DVD includes a quiz at the end to test your Delphi and Pascal knowledge. And every Delphi DVD focuses on object-oriented programming. You will learn Delphi OOP from the ground up with an emphasis on using Delphi Pascal to build systems that are object oriented, creating re-usable code that is efficient and powerful.

• Introduction to Object Pascal and the Delphi programming language
• Overview of the Delphi IDE
• Delphi programming language rules
• Object Oriented System Design
• Understanding the object-oriented approach
• Programming Objectives and Application Design Steps
• Creating your first application
• Pascal identifiers, reserved words, keywords
• Understanding and working with variables
• Conditional statements and boolean evalations
• Detailed coverage of program components and generated files

• Introduction to Object Pascal Data Types
• Variables, Constants, Resource Strings
• Understanding Locality and Scope
• Object Pascal Fundamental and Generic Types
• Object Pascal Predefined Types
• Ordinal Types (Integer, Character, Boolean, Enumerated & Subrange Types)
• Integer Types examined (Byte, Cardinal, Int64, Integer, LongInt, LongWord, ShortInt, SmallInt, Word)
• Real Types examined (Comp, Currency, Double, Extended, Real, Real48, Single)
• Step-by-step application example
• Understanding the logic flow
• Analyzing the workflow and the User Interface
• Adding validations to your Delphi application
• Testing your Delphi Pascal code
• Is it bug free? How to uncover hidden problems
• Debugging your application - Stepping through your code

• Range boundaries application example
• Date and Time
• Date and Time Routines
• Calendar and Time-Tracking application example
• String Types examined (Char, AnsiChar, WideChar, ShortString, String, AnsiString, WideString)
• Working with strings
• UsingStrings application example
• Structured Types
• Working with Arrays in Delphi: Simple Arrays, Dynamic Arrays, Multi-Dimensional Arrays
• Delphi Arrays application example
• Object Pascal Record Types
• Records application example
• Object Pascal Set Types
• Sets application example
• Object Pascal File Types
• Object Pascal Pointers
• Pointers application example
• Object Pascal Variants
• Variants application example
• User-Defined Types
• Type compatibility and Typecasting

• With Statements
• Conditional Statements (If...then...else, Case)
• Repetitive Statements - Loops (For..to, For..In, While, Repeat)
• Nested Loops, Backward Loops, Multi-Path Loops
• Procedures
• Functions
• Parameters
• Passing parameters to your methods
• Step-by-step application example: Document Indexer Application - It reads a text document, parses the strings, and generates an index
• Value parameters
• Variable parameters
• Constant parameters
• Reference parameters
• Open-array parameters
• Multiple parameters
• Function Overloading
• Recursion
• Step-by-step application example: File Searching Application

• Owner vs. Parent
• Self in Delphi
• Object Pascal Classes
• Object Pascal Objects
• Dynamic Component Creation
• Inheritance
• Encapsulation
• Properties
• Scope and Visibility
• DelphiTraining Class - Using inheritance and encapsulation
• Polymorphism
• PolyHuman Class - Polymorphism in action
• Constructors
• Destructors
• Constructors and Destructors in action
• Class References
• Interfaces
• Interfaces application example
• Object Reference Model
• Overview of the Run-Time Library
• Multiple examples to demonstrate concepts and techniques