Teach Yourself Delphi 2 in 21 Days

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Summary: The best book from the beginners
Review: I have read this book.I think it's best fit for the beginners who wants to learn how to program useing Delphi 2.To me I am a Network administrator.I can program in VC++2.0,VB4.0,etc.But I hadn't use the Delphi before I read this book.I had studied Pascal in University.But when I was in job,I thought Pascal was a very good education language,not a good developing language.So I used C++ or VB to program.But after I read this book,I changed my mind.I found using Pascal,I could write very usefull codes.It's easier than VC and stronger than VB,espacially in Database.The book I had read three times,and now I could write codes to develope our database.I hope more and more people to read this book.It's very help for in your job. YangHao Mar.30th.1997

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Summary: Good book for those who already know Visual Basic and Pascal
Review: If you already know Turbo/Object Pascal and Visual Basic, this is an excellent starting point. This book will give you an overview of the capabilities and power of Delphi as well as general information on Windows basics such as DLL's and threads. It does not, however, serve as your step-by-step tutorial on Pascal or Delphi (If you're looking for it--go see the online documentation).

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Summary: Not for beginners
Review: One of the worst introductory books I've seen. There are many unrelated windows/OOP topics in the first week. When teaching you the programming, I found the difficulty level is poorly handled. In the first day of real programming, you are taught threads! For a beginner, you have to learn many of the common components by yourself, the book doesn't help you much. The authors claimed to be VB programmers too. They should have read 'Teach yourself VB 5 in 21 days' and 'Teach yourself C++ in 21 days' before starting to write.