Rating:  - If your learning from scratch...get THI S book!
Having been familiar with Pascal in the past but not programming for a few years i decided to get back into the swing. But OOP and Delphi seemed like a whole new language to me. This book refreshed me on the basics and guided me through the rest. Now i look forward to writing in Delphi ... without breaking a sweat!
Rating: - A very well done book
This is a splendid book. It systematically reviews the BDS/Delphi programming framework, and is written in excellent English. In contrast to the flood of books available to get new and migrating programmers up to speed with Microsoft's languages, Borland has lacked anything equivalent until now. As the owner/reader of about 100 Delphi books, some of which include more detail on much narrower topics and most of which are less well written, I was pleased to get and read this book. I learned things from it, even though I've been using Delphi since version 1. If you are looking for a first book on Delphi, this is clearly the best, although its target audience includes not just neophytes but also those considering a language/platform transition (via its coverage of C# differences). We need more such books. The fact that this immensely readable book cannot be all things to all people and (coming out within a few months of the latest release) cannot comprehensively cover all the latest langauge developments, does not detract from its intrinsic value.
Rating:  - Inside Delphi 2006
At first glance, the title would lead one to believe that this book will reveal an abundance of knowledge pertaining to the latest version of Delphi called Delphi 2006.
The only revelation that becomes quite apparent, within first two chapters, is that of the title.
The book contains a synopsis of previous versions of Delphi, from Delphi 1 to the present. The silence is finally interupted in the last few chapters when a miniscule amount of pertinent information is forthcoming about .net funtionality and Delphi 2006.
If you are an ardent Delphi programmer, SAVE your money.
Rating:  - Good Book for Beginners
There haven't been all that many new Delphi books in recent years so it was pleasant to find this one. This book appears to be aimed at new Delphi programmers and it does a pretty good job of bringing them up to speed. Advanced Delphi programmers will probably not find a great many items of interest, but they might find a few. I've have used all ten versions of Delphi (and most versions of Turbo Pascal) and have about one hundred books in my library on Delphi. So, while most of the information was not new to me, I did run across one or two little gems I had not seen before.
I'm glad I bought it.
Rating: - Good book for its purpose
If you're already an advanced Delphi programmer, you're not likely to find a whole lot "groundbreaking" in here. But if you're new to Delphi, or just want to brush up on a few areas you may have missed, this is a good book.
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