Course Overview

What this Delphi Programming course covers, how to use it, prerequisites.

A structured, hands-on course on Delphi and the Object Pascal language. It runs from your first console program to object-oriented design, generics, anonymous methods, RTTI and attributes, multithreading and the Parallel Programming Library, VCL desktop apps, FireMonkey cross-platform apps (Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Linux), FireDAC database programming, REST/JSON, web services, component development, testing, and deployment.

Targets RAD Studio / Delphi 12 Athens and Delphi 13 Florence (most content also applies to 10.x and 11.x). Version-specific features are marked. Check the Embarcadero DocWiki for your exact version.

Course Overview

Beginners, students, desktop/mobile developers, maintainers of Delphi/VCL systems, developers from Pascal, C#, Java, or C++

Basic computer literacy. No programming experience required for Part I.

~120–140 hours (self-paced), 12–14 weeks Delphi Community Edition (free for individuals/small companies, within the license terms) or RAD Studio Professional/Enterprise/Architect. Windows 10/11 for the IDE. Optional: Android SDK, a Mac with Xcode (for iOS/macOS), Linux (Enterprise, for Linux targets).

Open-source alternative Free Pascal + Lazarus (highly compatible Object Pascal, LCL instead of VCL/FMX)

Foundations → Structured Types → OOP → Advanced Language → Concurrency/System → UI (VCL/FMX) → Data/Web → Professional
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