Meetings:
February 11 Meeting: Free Pascal and Lazarus IDE MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
TOPIC: GWT - Google Web Toolkit!
PRESENTER: Ricardo Richardson!
DATE: February 11, 2010
TIME: 6:30pm Refreshments & Networking, Presentation begins 7:00pm
LOCATION: Nova Southeastern University, in our usual room (flux.org for directions)
Free Pascal (FPC) is an open-source Pascal compiler with a high degree of Delphi compatibility available on several platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. FPC supports full object capability and is self-hosted.
Lazarus is an open-source IDE written in FPC. The Lazarus Component Library (LCL) includes equivalents for many of the familiar VCL controls such as forms, buttons, text boxes and so on that are used to create applications.
Like Delphi, Free Pascal and Lazarus are both general-purpose programming tools, meaning you can develop a wide variety of programs with them, including:
* Console applications
* Dynamic libraries (.so, .dll & .dylib)
* GUI Apps
* Web Apps
* (etc.)
Other notable capabilities include:
* Object-Oriented Development (excluding multiple inheritance)
* Database (InterBase,Firebird,Oracle,MSSQL,MySQL,PostGre,SqlLite,RollYourOwn)
* Extensible Run-time
* XML
* SOAP
* (many others)
Covered in this session:
* Tour of FPC (including the console IDE)
* Tour of Lazarus
* Build/review some console apps
Hello, RSS downloader and Blackjack
* Dissect an object implementation of a console game.
* Extending the game to use GUI.
* Build, install and demonstrate a GUI component.
* Build a (very) simple web site.
* Review a more comlicated web site.
* Extending the site to include authentication and sessions.
(whew!)
About the Presenter:
Bob :=
( isInTheGameFor43Years ) and
( hasBuiltTwoPascalCompilers ) and
( isDelphiRoadWarriorFor15Years ) and
( isLinuxFan ) and
( not isMicrosoftFan ) and
( isFisherman );
OFFICERS
CHAIRMAN
Dr. Eric S. Ackerman
Nova Southeastern University
Graduate School of Computer and Information
Sciences
3301 College Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314
Office: (954) 262-2063 , 1-800-986-2247 ext. 2063
Fax: (954) 262-3915
Email: e.ackerman@ieee.org
VICE-CHAIRMAN
Jose M. Romero
Email: j.romero@ieee.org
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