Learn Pascal Programming in 10 Minutes

In this lesson, I explain the fundamentals of the Pascal language in under 10 minutes. While this clearly won’t over Pascal in depth, it will give you the essential syntax needed to understand and write traditional (procedural) Pascal programs. Later in this course, I’ll explain the object oriented additions of the Object Pascal language used by Lazarus and Delphi.
Huw Collingbourne is author of The Little Book Of Delphi (Object Pascal) Programming. Available from:
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This series explains cross-platform programming using Lazarus and Free Pascal on Windows and the Raspberry Pi OS. It will cover everything from procedural Pascal to object orientation with Object Pascal. The Pascal language used is also closely compatible with Object Pascal for Delphi. Be sure to bookmark the series Playlist: • Cross-Platform Program...

[@goodlookinouthomie1757]

I learned to code back in the 90s with a pirates copy of Borland Turbo Pascal that we passed around the classroom. It absolutely captivated me. Although I never use it today, I'll always have a soft spot for the language. It's like my childhood sweetheart 😏

[@LearnWithHuw]

I started way back in the 80s with the old DOS Turbo Pascal 3. Happy days!

[@greenrocket23]

God bless you, and thank you for helping us learn.

[@LearnWithHuw]

Thank you.

[@AutMouseLabs]

Looking forward to the next entry in this series. Thanks!

[@LearnWithHuw]

Thank you. Lots more to come!

[@nicosilva4750]

I hope you get to anonymous methods, generics, interfaces, and the types of parameters (const, var, and out). Examples would be great.

[@LearnWithHuw]

Give me time! 🙂 For more advanced programming, see also my series on programming a TreeView outliner in Delphi (you can find that in the playlists on my channel).

[@Controller_paul]

Thanks Huw, enjoying this series. I

[@LearnWithHuw]

I'm glad to know so many people are interested in this! Many thanks.

[@jeevanarajaratne1010]

Thanks...

[@LearnWithHuw]

Thank you!

[@blaisemugalu8309]

merci

[@kaustubhken]

I have many questions first is Lazarus provides free gui then why would people buy Delphi. Second Lazarus provides free gui for Pascal then why there is no free GUI for c++ like c++ builder.
Please answer

[@LearnWithHuw]

You would need to evaluate Delphi and Lazarus to decide which you prefer. Borland/Embarcadeo added C++ support onto their IDE. So if you really want to program in C++, you could use the Embarcadero IDE or Visual Studio (among others). Lazarus is exclusively for Pascal.

[@kaustubhken]

@@LearnWithHuw why there is no Lazarus for c++ , Borland c++ builder is costly and has licensing requirements

[@LearnWithHuw]

@@kaustubhken I'm not even sure why anyone would want Lazarus to support C++ bearing in mind that there are numerous other C++ IDEs. What would be the point?

[@kaustubhken]

@@LearnWithHuw I mean the RAD tool drag and drop controls like button GUI that you get in Lazarus for Pascal

[@LearnWithHuw]

@@kaustubhken I suppose that might be useful. However, I think the Lazarus team are wholly focused on Pascal. If they were to add support for other languages personally I'd prefer the "successors" to Pascal - Modula-2 and Oberon.

[@BAD-AL-mods]

As I was looking at Pascal I felt myself thinking "Geez... this is such an ugly language, like BASIC. Why not use curly braces?". Then I did a little research and could not find any Typewriters or Computer Keyboards with Curley Braces on them until the late 70's! (VT100)
Now I get it, Pascal (1970) and BASIC (1964) predate curly braces!
Now how all those guys at Bell Labs wrote UNIX in C in the 1970's, not sure.

[@mohokhachai]

s vs S