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"Essential Pascal" is a free online introduction to the Pascal programming language. This book has been written by Marco Cantù and covers the language form the perspective of Borland's Delphi development environment. You can find more information about this book in its Introduction.
December 28, 2000:
I've updated the structure of the Essential Pascal web site, adding this front page.
December 28, 2000:
You can now download a single zip file with the entire book, for various languages. See instructions below.
January 2001:
I plan adding a short chapter on file management. If you have other suggestions let me know...
There are different ways of getting the latest version of Essential Pascal. You can:
In any case, remember also to download the zip file with the complete source code of the examples discussed in the book.
Thanks to many people who volunteered their time for this task, the book has been translated into many languages. Here are the currently available versions (or works-in-progress) and contact information for translators. Check the translations page if you are willing to help. Right now I have contacts also for Greek and Chinese.
| Language | Person in charge | Web Site |
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| Dutch | Matthijs Willemstein | N/A |
| French | Iannis Papageorgiadis | L'essentiel sur Pascal
(Hosted on mc.com/EPascal) |
| German | Immo Wache (Web site) and Rafael Barranco-Droege |
Einsteigerkurs Pascal für Delphi (Hosted on mc.com/EPascal) |
| Italian | Paolo Rossi | Essential Pascal, Edizione Italiana
(Hosted on marcocantu.it/EPascal) |
| Japanese | M. Miyamoto | Essential Pascal, Japanese edition (Hosted on www.users.gr.jp/delphi/) |
| Portuguese | Odilon Nelson | Pascal Essencial (Hosted on www.geocities.com/odilon_nelson/) |
| Spanish | Rafael Barranco-Droege | Pascal Esencial para Delphi
(Hosted on mc.com/EPascal) |
| Turkish | Mustafa Kasap | Temel Pascal (Hosted on geocities.com/m_kasap) (Notice: The site was recently moved) |
| Arabic | Khaled Shagrouni | Essential Pascal, Arabic Edition (Hosted on mc.com/EPascal) |
For an introduction to the use of the Delphi development environment, see Essential Delphi, also by Marco. This book is still a work in progress (with a long way to go to be finished).
For an in-depth coverage of the Object-Oriented elements of Object Pascal and a complete and in-depth coverage of the development of Delphi applications (including the features of the latest version of Delphi), see my the most recent edition of the printed book Mastering Delphi.
© Copyright Marco Cantù, Wintech Italia Srl 1995-2000