[fpc-devel] Project Idea: Mini-FPC

[Jeff Duntemann]

That just may do the job.

Three years ago I started rewriting my BP7 Pascal book for FPC, but the 
issue of which IDE would be better for beginners drove me nuts. I looked 
around for something simple and reliable and eventually set the project 
aside. Lazarus is really the way to go for an IDE, but it's a lot to 
grasp all at once for students and newcomers. Don't get me wrong; I love 
it--but it really wasn't designed for absolute beginners.

The book is an intro to Pascal and not to Lazarus, but I'd really like 
to use Lazarus as the example IDE, even though all the example code runs 
in a console. I'll take a look at Lazarus for Education this week and 
see whether it could work for the book.

Thanks for pointing it out to me.

--73--

--Jeff Duntemann
   Colorado Springs, Colorado


On 9/10/2011 9:28 AM, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> 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
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