[fpc-devel] Project Idea: Mini-FPC

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:51:36 +0200 (CEST)
Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Jeff Duntemann wrote:
> 
> > If a "mini-FPC" were to be created to help popularize the Pascal language and 
> > get beginners interested and up to speed, it would be more useful to provide 
> > a simple IDE than a stripped-down compiler. The console FP IDE has never 
> > worked well for me (crashes a lot) and Lazarus is very large and 
> > intimidatingly complex. I'd rather see some effort put into an 
> > easy-to-install beginner's programming environment than in pulling features 
> > out of the compiler. I know this isn't the forum for that discussion, but I 
> > did want to make the suggestion.
> 
> Maybe more effort should be put in the 'education' version of lazarus.
> Someone already started this.

See here:

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_for_education

Any help and ideas are welcome.

Mattias