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KeyStone Announce Delphi 2005 Video-Based Training Course

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KeyStone Learning Systems has announced a new video-based, instructor-led e-learning course for Delphi 2005™ coming later this summer. As a member of TDUG you have access to a special 10% pre-order discount.

“In today’s market, a developer must become as familiar as possible with the tools used to craft robust software,” says KeyStone Learning Systems instructor Jeff Bosworth. “There are currently very few courses available that address the richness of Delphi 2005 and its ability to help you build better software faster. The concepts and features presented in this course will give you a keener edge toward the most productive use of Delphi.”

This new Delphi 2005 training course will give you a head start in preparing for the Borland certification exam when it becomes available. Certification in Delphi shows your employer and/or customer that you will save them time and money by speeding the delivery of their software requirements.”

Instructor Bio:
Jeff Bosworth provides 30 years of experience in the IT industry and most recently directed the creation of courseware and certification programs for all the development tools crafted by Borland™ Software Corporation. Jeff holds several certifications including Borland™ Master Instructor/Developer, and has written and taught courses on Delphi™, JBuilder™, and Kylix™ to a worldwide audience for 10 years. He has also presented product tutorials at several BorCons.


TDUG Offer Details:
To take advantage of this special offer, and to view a detailed outline of the course contents; follow the link below.

Click Here

When purchasing, proceed to the checkout and use the special promo code for your discount.

Delphi Promo Code: Delphi10


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Lee Graham
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Just to let you all know I have approved this topic. After Rhumbaflappy posted a lot about the free Delphi some time ago, I was asked if it was OK if they posted this topic about their training.
 
Hi all.

There are versions of Delphi 2005 Personal Edition popping up as DVD freebies with some magazines. One magazine in the UK and another in Germany. Austrailia may also have one. I haven't seen any in the US, yet.

Delphi 2005 Architect would be quite an expensive undertaking for a hobbiest, even with a 10% discount ( $3,315.50 at amazon.com ).

Delphi 2005 Enterprise is $2,545.99, at the same source. Delphi 2005 Professional is $1,111.49.

Previous versions of Delphi Personal have been priced at $100 US, and at that price is a good deal for freeware projects. A free version is even better. :)

All that said, the real advantage of Delphi for our use is that we can use Delphi 6 or 7 Personal, and make Win32 native apps or DLLs that require no runtime code. This allows you to get the speed of C++ applications with the relative ease of the Pascal language and the great Delphi IDE to develop it. A Win32 Delphi app requires no runtime compiler/interpreter or extra DLLs... it's a stand-alone executable.

Delphi 2005 also allows you to create Win32 apps, but it's focus is actually on the .NET runtime-compiled environment. This adds a lot of overhead to applications, especially if the enduser doesn't have the proper .NET environment installed on his computer ( I think the .Net 1.1 package is a 20+ MB addon to your system! ).

Delphi 2005 basically has 3 languages in it... Delphi Win32, Delphi.NET, and C# ( for .NET ).

And if you're going to use the .NET environment, why not just use C# instead of Delphi.NET?

C# was made for .NET, and there are freeware IDEs that are very good for programmers. ( Oddly, Delphi 2005 includes C# as a language for it's IDE! ). Additonally, there are thousands of tutorials, snippets and sourcecodes already available free on the internet for C#. I've used C# experimentally with Russ Dirk's FSConnect to link to FS9 without problem.

But, I wouldn't release an application for Flight Simulator made with C# ( or Delphi.NET ) as the enduser would need the .NET downloaded to his computer to run it.

So, is there an advantage for us to use Delphi 2005, over a freely available Delphi 6 Personal Edition? None, unless you wish to sell the application, which would require Delphi Professional ( at least ) for the license to sell the app.

I'm suspecting that the next version of Flight Simulator will be a .NET program. If that is the case, then the endusers of that version will already have the .NET environment installed, and there would then be no reason not to use C# or Delphi.NET. In that scenario, it would be a good idea to learn Delphi.NET or C# to write our next generation of tools.

Dick
 
Hmm I have always wanted to do some programming for FS design. I code in VB mostly with lots of SQL stuff. Where do I begin?

Heh heh... always have to follow where Rhumba goes. :D
 
crashaz said:
Hmm I have always wanted to do some programming for FS design. I code in VB mostly with lots of SQL stuff. Where do I begin?
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I guess the first question always is what you want to program for FS design :).

Most of my tools are designed with VB6. But the language is not the most important thing, you first need a good idea of what you want to create.
 
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