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Marco Cantù
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Marco Cantù

Marco Cantù is an experienced Delphi expert, who started working with the product since its introduction in 1995. He is currently working as a Product Manager for RAD Studio at Embarcadero Technologies, an Idera company. Prior to that, Marco was a Delphi trainer and consultant for Wintech Italia. Over the years, Marco has written 20 books on Delphi, from the classic Mastering Delphi series to the recent Object Pascal Handbook. Marco has been a speaker at many Delphi and programming conferences worldwide, including over 10 Borland US Conferences, the Software Development Conference, Borland European conferences, EKON (Germany), DCon (UK), Conference to the Max (Holland), DelphiTage, the Italian Delphi Day, and a few editions of Delphi Developer Days. Marco is based in Italy.
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Paweł Głowacki
Paweł Głowacki
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Paweł Głowacki

Paweł Głowacki was Embarcadero's European Technical Lead for Developer Tools. Previously, Paweł spent over 7 years working as a senior consultant and trainer for Delphi within Borland Education Services and CodeGear. Apart from working with Embarcadero customers across the region, he represented Embarcadero internationally as a conference and seminar speaker. Paweł passed away in mid-December 2017, but he is alive in the hearts of the Delphi developers community, worldwide.
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Do you speak Object Pascal?

The Pascal language was designed to teach good programming practices, and its modern counterpart, the Object Pascal language, in use today, still holds true to some of the core tenets in terms of readability and clarity. The Object Pascal language in today’s Delphi is a high-level, modern, strongly typed compiled language that supports structured and object-oriented programming.

To solve a problem using a computer, you need to define a finite set of actions that operate on certain data – or in other words, to define an algorithm. An algorithm expressed in a programming language is a computer program and its actions are described as programming language instructions.

One or more actions that are performed on certain data can be encapsulated in Object Pascal language as a routine or a class. In most programming languages, routines are called functions. In Object Pascal, if a function does not return a value, it is called a procedure. Classes...

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Marco Cantù

Marco Cantù is an experienced Delphi expert, who started working with the product since its introduction in 1995. He is currently working as a Product Manager for RAD Studio at Embarcadero Technologies, an Idera company. Prior to that, Marco was a Delphi trainer and consultant for Wintech Italia. Over the years, Marco has written 20 books on Delphi, from the classic Mastering Delphi series to the recent Object Pascal Handbook. Marco has been a speaker at many Delphi and programming conferences worldwide, including over 10 Borland US Conferences, the Software Development Conference, Borland European conferences, EKON (Germany), DCon (UK), Conference to the Max (Holland), DelphiTage, the Italian Delphi Day, and a few editions of Delphi Developer Days. Marco is based in Italy.
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Paweł Głowacki

Paweł Głowacki was Embarcadero's European Technical Lead for Developer Tools. Previously, Paweł spent over 7 years working as a senior consultant and trainer for Delphi within Borland Education Services and CodeGear. Apart from working with Embarcadero customers across the region, he represented Embarcadero internationally as a conference and seminar speaker. Paweł passed away in mid-December 2017, but he is alive in the hearts of the Delphi developers community, worldwide.
Read more about Paweł Głowacki