How to Program Effectively in Delphi for AS/A Level Computer Science

How to use this book

Introduction

1a Delphi Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 1b Delphi Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 2 Starting programming

3 Programming constructs

4 Introducing data types

5 Arithmetic operations

6 Pointers and dynamic memory

7 Relational operators

8 Boolean operations

9 Exception handling

10 String-handling operations

11 Regular expressions

12 Random number generation

13 Subroutines(procedures and functions)

14 Single- and multi-dimensional arrays 

15 Introducing records

16 Introducing files

17 Recursion

18 Structured programming

19 Introducing Object-Oriented Programming

20 Object references

21 Encapsulation and information hiding

22 Inheritance

23 Polymorphism

24 Aggregation

25 Object-Oriented Paradigm

26 Object-Oriented key design principles

27 Class and object diagrams

28 Creating an onscreen form in console mode 29 Creating forms 

30 Streams

31 Applications

32 Network programming

33 Encryption

34 Hashing and Bitcoin

35 Generics

36 Vectors and matrices

37 Graphics

38 Sound applications in Delphi 

39 VCL components 1

40 VCL components 2 

41 FireMonkey components 1

42 FireMonkey components 2

43 Debugging

44 Anonymous methods

45 Measuring time

46 Sensors

47 Introduction to OpenGL

48 More OpenGL

49 Game engines

50 OLE - Microsoft Excel, Word

51 Git

52 Unit testing

53 Installing packages

54 Using the IDE more effectively

55 Introduction to databases

56 Creating and executing SQL statements at runtime 57 Using DBEdit boxes

58 Using tables

59 Navigating a dataset

60 Editing a dataset

61 SQL and the ADOQuery component

62 Exploring SQL

63 Introduction to Interbase

64 Using Delphi with Interbase

65 Case tools for designing databases

66 Project preparation

67 Low code wizards

68 Low code and REST

69 Introduction to FireDac database programming 70 FastReports

71 Database programming for mobile applications 72 Rest programming with Delphi

73 TMS software components

74 Web server applications and databases

75 Machine learning

76 Advanced graphics 1

77 Advanced graphics 2

78 Creating your own components

79 Incorporating assembly language programming 80 Python4Delphi

81 Quartex Pascal/Smart mobile studio/TMS WebCore 82 Using Delphi with Arduino

83 Serial data communication

84 Arduino Uno

Index