Discover Delphi : Programming Principles Explained

Suitable both for beginners and more experienced programmers, Discover Delphi provides a complete and user-friendly introduction to programming with this accessible, prize-winning language. Supported by a wealth of screen shots, examples, quizzes and exercises, the book harnesses the unique nature of Delphi to enable the reader to acquire fundamental programming skills while learning to design and produce attractive Graphical User Interfaces (GUls).

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Delphi 5 Developer's Guide

The Delphi 5 Developer's Guide is a complete reference showing developers what they need to know most about Delphi 5. The text begins with a tour of Delphi 5 basics, including improvements since version 1. After observing object-oriented Pascal programming, including advanced language features, the authors turn to the strengths of using the Visual Component Library (VCL) application frameworks. They include several invaluable sections for corporate developers, including a "coding standards"...

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The Tomes of Delphi: Algorithms and Data Structures

Delphi developer Julian Bucknall provides fellow developers a comprehensive overview of using algorithms and data structures from a practical perspective. Bucknall begins with a discussion of algorithm performance, and provides comprehensive coverage of such topics as arrays, linked lists, and binary trees. The book focuses on search algorithms—such as sequential and binary search—and sort algorithms—including bubble, insertion, Shell sort, quicksort, merge sort, and heapsort—along with techniques for optimization. Additionally, the author presents hashing and hash tables, priority queues, state machines and regular expressions, and data compression techniques such as Huffman and LZ77.

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Delphi in a Nutshell : A Desktop Quick Reference

Aimed at the working Delphi developer, Delphi in a Nutshell is an effective desktop reference to this popular programming tool. Besides listing all core classes and methods, this book also provides a host of expert dos and don'ts for mastering the newest features in Delphi's Object Pascal.
The heart of this book is its reference sections on built-in Delphi language features and other useful information on this development tool. Each entry has a guide to syntax, a description of all parameters and return values, and code samples, plus many entries feature "tricks and tips" with additional information. While this title concentrates on the "core" language (instead of Delphi's extensive support for visual components), there's little doubt that it will be useful if you work with the tool on a daily basis.

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Mastering Delphi 5

A previous edition of this book won Delphi Informant's "Reader's Choice" award as the best Delphi book of the year. This new edition is even better! It introduces programmers to all of Delphi 5's new features, and to more than 100 real-world examples that stretch Delphi 5 to its limits. It shows readers how to use direct calls to the Windows API to add features to existing applications. Begin with basic programming topics and end with detailed examples of COM, CORBA, and advanced ActiveX...

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