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Expert Delphi - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805121107
Pages 424 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Marco Cantù Marco Cantù
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Paweł Głowacki Paweł Głowacki
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Building Blocks
2. Chapter 1: Fasten Your Seat Belts 3. Chapter 2: Mind Your Language 4. Chapter 3: Packing Up Your Toolbox 5. Chapter 4: Using the Parallel Programming Library 6. Part 2: Going Mobile
7. Chapter 5: Playing with FireMonkey 8. Chapter 6: FireMonkey in 3D 9. Chapter 7: Building User Interfaces with Style 10. Chapter 8: Working with Mobile Operating Systems 11. Chapter 9: Desktop Apps and Mobile Bridges 12. Part 3: From Data to Services
13. Chapter 10: Embedding Databases 14. Chapter 11: Integrating with Web Services 15. Chapter 12: Building Mobile Backends 16. Chapter 13: Easy REST API Publishing with RAD Server 17. Chapter 14: App Deployment 18. Chapter 15: The Road Ahead 19. Index
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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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