[fpc-devel] Project Idea: Mini-FPC

[Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho]

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Jeff Duntemann <jeff at duntemann.com> wrote:
> 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.

I have already worked with 13 students from my university, all of
which had never worked with Pascal before and using Lazarus was never
an issue. I just explained how to install it correctly (because my
projects requires Lazarus from svn) and that's all. I didn't need to
say a word about how to use the form designer and people could use it.
I didn't need to say a word about how to add files to a project,
everyone could do it. When using the stable version I didn't even need
to explain them how to install it.... so did you really have a
problematic experience involving Lazarus and newbies?

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Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho