The Book

What you get

• 1,098 pages at 7 by 10 inch trim, professionally typeset for long technical reading sessions.
• 81 chapters across 12 parts, sequenced so each part builds on the last.
• 5 reference appendices: language reference, reserved words and directives, useful libraries, migration guide, glossary plus topical index.
• A runnable Delphi 13 project for every code-bearing chapter. Each example folder contains a working .dproj, every named listing as a verbatim Pascal unit, a driver that exercises the listings, and a README. You read the chapter, then press F9.
• Strict, opinionated coding conventions applied consistently across every listing — UPPERCASE control flow, lowercase declarators, properties never bare F-fields, every method body wrapped in TRY/EXCEPT, no Exit, no Inc/Dec on properties, no anonymous methods outside their two narrow carve-outs.
• End-to-end coverage — not just language, but components, cross-platform, web, architecture, databases, and productionising.

Read a sample chapter

Chapter 13 — Properties (and Why F-Fields Are Evil) — is the canonical sample. It shows the book’s voice, the listing density, the rule-card pattern, and the worked-example structure used throughout.

Read Chapter 13 (PDF)

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