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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Although I use Free Pascal/Lazarus a
lot (because we have a lot of existing pascal code) I think C++
and some GUI framework like QT might be a better option. C/C++ is
the number one used programming language. C/C++ code is much more
portable to other systems. There are more compilers. QT has a very
nice IDE (QT Creator) and is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Nobody is using Pascal these days. So why learn it?<br>
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I'm not a big fan of the RAD development way any more. (I was
years ago). The problem is that you should separate your business
logic and the GUI. With Delphi like RAD it's very difficult to do
that. (but it is possible) Everything is coded in events and
connected to database aware GUI controls. (In the case of a
database application)<br>
Another problem with the RAD way is that a lot is stored in forms
(.lfm files) and it's difficult to see/notice changes to those
files. They can be very big and it's difficult to see if some
control is missing, for example, an event or so. The Lazarus IDE
does frequently change the properties of controls on the form. For
example the width and the height properties frequently change with
no reason as it seems. As specially when you do development on
both Windows and Linux. That makes tracking code changes (and so
potential new bugs) not very easy.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Erwin<br>
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Op 12-10-2016 om 20:10 schreef Adrian De Armas via Lazarus:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hello everyone,
<div>I am a professor of "introduction to programming".
Currently we are working with matlab and c.</div>
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<div>Today I had a meeting about doing the module more
interesting to the students. Currently we teach algorithms
making console applications and usually I receive questions
like "Why don't we do something more modern?". </div>
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<div>I recommended that we should use Pascal in General and
Lazarus in particular to teach how to create rich GUI
Applications and to my surprise the idea was well recieved.
Now I have to make suggestions about how to prepare the module
starting from zero. Students do not know how to program and I
need to include subjects as: variable declaration, operations,
if, while, for, functions and procedure, arrays and
multidimensional arrays.</div>
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<div>I would love to know what you think about making the
transition from console to GUI.</div>
<div>This is an exciting opportunity I'd love to make it right.</div>
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<div>Regards</div>
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