Helpful Resources for New Users
Go Up to Getting Started with RAD Studio
This topic contains some helpful links to get you started learning how to use RAD Studio.
Basics
RAD Studio:
- How to start a programming career with Delphi XE and C++Builder XE Starter Editions by Embarcadero product evangelist David Intersimone
- Tutorial: Using the IDE, an illustrated tour of the IDE, with step-by-step instructions for creating your first RAD Studio application
Delphi:
- Delphi Cookbook by Daniel Teti, for creating VCL and FireMonkey apps
- Delphi XE<n> Starter Essentials eBook by Bob Swart, free with the purchase of the Starter Edition or available for purchase in paperback at Lulu.com
- Dr. Bob Swart's Programming Clinic, books and news for Delphi and C++Builder, training and events
- A Beginner's Guide to Delphi Programming, a free about.com online course by Zarko Gajic; covers Delphi 7 and is relevant for newer versions
- Fundamentals of Database Development with Delphi by Zarko Gajic for about.com; covers the prebuilt database components in Delphi 7 and is relevant for newer versions
- Chris Rolliston's Delphi Foundations, available online and in print
- Delphi Language Guide
C++ Builder:
- Learn to program with C++Builder: A Getting Started blog series with C++Builder Product Manager David Millington
- Introduction and Installation
- Building and Debugging
- Design, Architecture, and UIs
- Real Code and Useful C++: Ownership, smart pointers, styles, and optional values
- Finishing the calculator: operators, and putting it all together
Database Tutorials
- Tutorial: Using dbExpress to View and Update Databases in an Application
- Tutorial: Using a DataSnap Server with an Application
- Tutorial: DataSnap Application Using an ISAPI DLL Server
- Tutorial: Using an InterBase Database in a Delphi or C++ Application
- Tutorial: Using dbExpress Delegate Drivers
The Tutorials section includes several other more general tutorials.
Code Examples and Application Samples
A library of code examples exists in the Help:
- Code examples documentation.
- Downloadable code for the examples is available on SourceForge.
Application samples (also known as Demos) are installed with the product:
- Sample projects are installed at Start | Programs | Embarcadero RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin | Samples.
- From inside the IDE, select Projects > Open Sample Project on the Welcome Page to open the samples directory.
- The Samples are also available on SourceForge.
- Documentation for the product Samples is at the Sample category on the Examples wiki.
Video Demos
- See the latest video demos of RAD Studio at:
- EDN TV
- Embarcadero YouTube
- Delphi Training Series - Programming 101
- RAD in Action: Modernize and Extend your VCL Applications - Use Cases Part 1
- New for Android in Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio XE7 with Jim McKeeth
- FireUI Multi-Device Designer (Delphi)
- RAD Studio XE5 - Building your first multi-device app for Android, iOS, Windows and OS X
- Blogs: David I does 32 videos in 31 days, October 2012
- Nick Hodges demonstrated Turbo Delphi 2006. These videos are still relevant to later releases: 30 Demos in 30 Days, by Nick Hodges.
Delphi Programming
- Nick Hodges' book, Coding in Delphi: https://leanpub.com/codingindelphi
- Nick Hodges has a good blog series: "Delphi Development Pretty Good Practices"
- Marco Cantu's new Object Pascal Handbook - visit http://www.embarcadero.com/radoffer
- Free beginner's book: Essential Pascal, by Marco Cantu
- Website with tutorials: Delphi Basics, by Neil Moffatt
- About.com: Learning Object-Oriented Programming with Delphi, by Zarko Gajik
C++Builder Programming
- Volker Hillman wrote a comprehensive Introduction to C++Builder 2010.
- Lean & Mean Borland C++ by Bruneau Babet (Brady Publishing, 1994)
- http://bcbjournal.org/ (C++Builder Developer's Journal)
CodeRage Seminars
CodeRage is an annual three-day online seminar that features useful and timely presentations by Embarcadero developers and product evangelists.
Embarcadero offers replays of CodeRage going back to CodeRage 6 (2011):