I'll bet you bought them at 1/2 price books :) I have seen some pretty good old Delphi books show up there before. Which ones did you get? BTW there are some Kylix books on the way, too. On Amazon you can get "Building Kylix Applications" by Cary Jensen and Loy Anderson. Cary is venerable teacher of the Delphi craft who teamed up at one point in the past with Charlie Calvert to do some touring Delphi Workshops. Charlie is one of my favorite authors and has written several books, including some excellent Delphi/C++Builder books in the Unleashed series from SAMS. He is teaming up with David Intersimone and John Kaster to publish the "Kylix Developer's Guide" slated for November 5 publication. Charlie is a very knowledgable author who is very readable. In prior lives he was a journalist and an English teacher. He has even published some of his poetry on his web site http://homepages.borland.com/ccalvert/index.htm. His web site has some good Kylix reference material as well as Linux information and some other interesting pieces. Although he no longer works for Borland as he did for many years, Charlie is still a driving force in the Delphi community and is one reason that Borland stands apart from other tool vendors as a company that strives to support all kinds of developers wherever the technology being used is good and makes sense. There is also another Kylix book "Kylix Power Solutions" apparently available now but I am not familiar with the authors (Don Taylor, Jim Mischel, & Tim Gentry). There are a lot of other good Delphi books. Just do a search on Delphi on Amazon and if you have a question about if it is a good one or not, I'd be happy to let you know if I know. The internet is full of good resources for Delphi and Kylix, notably the Borland website. The newsgroups found at newsgroups.borland.com are extremely active and they are not full of a bunch of junk and flames. Many Delphi experts from around the world participate and will help anybody out with issues they run into. The Delphi Magazine from the U.K. http://www.thedelphimagazine.com/ has been publishing several good Kylix articles. The other notable Delphi magazine is the Delphi Informant (http://www.delphizine.com) which also publishes some Kylix articles. Of course you can always come to the Delphi SIG (Special Interest Group) at TCPC and we'll do our best to help you through your issues. In fact we have a meeting tonight and I need to get running! We meet the fourth Wednesday of every month. For directions, etc go to http://www.tcpc.com/sigs/delphi/index.html. Mark > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Rick Engebretson > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 5:48 AM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: [TCLUG] learning Kylix by learning Delphi > > > I purchased two (thick) Delphi 2 books hoping they would be good > references for Kylix. What luck!! Borland seems to have maintained a > consistent development environment from Delphi 2 (for Windows 95) through > Kylix (for Linux). > > And what a rich development environment it is!! > > As a Biophysicist interested in instrumentation and controls interfaces, > the Borland Visual Pascal system is a long sought working tool. It allows > me to get back to being a Biophysicist; instead of getting lost in a > variety of syntax, pointers, and obscure classes and libraries. > > M$ has never been consistent in its programming environment. Qbasic, > QuickBasic, QuickC, C, Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications, > Visual C, Visual Java, Front Page, are all very different even from > version to version. M$ planned obsolescence has destabilized the > industry. > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list