[fpc-other] Re: Pascal Showcase Project/Education

[Mattias Gärtner]

Zitat von Michael Fuchs <freepascal at ypa-software.de>:

> Richard Ward schrieb:
> > Yes, I think this would be a good candidate to build an IDE for
> > education use from.   For beginning computer science classes I think a
> > simpler IDE would be more suitable and for advanced courses, the
> > complete environment could be used.
>
> Full ACK. While I am teaching Object Pascal, I start with gedit + fpc in
> shell. The Lazarus IDE is too much for beginners. But the use of gedit
> and fpc has some restriktions. No integrated debugging enviroment for
> example.

... and no online help and no find declaration.

> I wish there where something like the textmode ide of fpc in gtk and/or
> win32.

There are some plans to create a lazarus for education package, which hides the
complex options (packages, frames, inheritance, versions) and add some helpers
for newbies (e.g. a simpler compiler options dialog).
See
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_for_education

You are welcome to add some ideas.

Mattias