Free Pascal Program Tutorial 1 - Getting Started - Lazarus Download Link - Mac Windows Linux

The Free Pascal Compiler ( FPC ) with the Lazarus IDE is a free clone of Turbo Pascal and Delphi. Currently, SchoolFreeware has two tutorial series, regarding the FPC and Lazarus IDE.

App Series: GUI Applications
Program Series: Command Line Interface (This Series). The program series covers more of the basics of the Pascal syntax and programming logic. It is recommended that users start with the Program Series.

The Free Pascal Compiler and Lazarus IDE works on Windows, Mac and Linux

[paulejking]

Pascal is a great teaching language, and always has been. The fact that it has become object oriented in recent decades thru Delphi and Lazarus makes it an even better teaching language for students first time out. I only wish that textbooks on it were more accessible, since I am only aware of one book in English, and it doesn't seem to be available anywhere except online.

[binaryguru]

Great tutorial!
For those of you who think Pascal is a dead language, are you ever wrong. Pascal aka Delphi is used heavily in the Aerospace industry to program satellites and such.
As well, there is a professional multi-platform IDE available called Delphi XE that is developed by Embarcadero. This company bought Borland's software IP and still updates supports and sells new versions of C++ Builder, Delphi, Interbase.
For those of you having a problem with Lazarus and getting your program to show output, just set a breakpoint right before your last end. statement.

[MrSageAdam]

You are right!!!(and i want to know many languages)
But even my school teacher said that Pascal is a useless language(its only used to teach highschoolers the basics of structure programming(as he said))
I would prefer to learn languages like python, java, javascript etc. that are more used in our days.

[rayandojohnson]

schools in the Caribbean still teach pascal

[killerdalek]

This is a really good series of tutorials for a really good compiler. Both are free. It doesn't get much better than that!

[williammandaelektronikdepa]

I've studied this program. in 1992 . I have also used a program on an annealing machine treatment. Greetings to all new friends. i am from batam islands, batam islands very near with singapore

[vickypedia]

My teacher instructed us to learn free pascal but because of quarantine and issues I had prior to it, I've missed around 80% of the classes. So this is a nice way to catch up.

[timboelsae]

back from the past.. my computer still understand my pascal lang such as writeln..readln :-)  nice software..   teach how to think procedural... step by step, making condition making selection.. such happy era..

[artemmos]

I used to programm with Dev-Pascal until I've found Lazarus in the internet. It took a lot of time to adapt to Lazarus. Your tutorial series is brilliant for beginner =D

[hyperhybrid]

From my time at Polytechnic, London, this was a favourite amongst those studying electrical and electronic engineering 80s 90s. Studying is also about having fun and laughs, so in the computer rooms, I called my program Timebomb, not sure if that was done on Pascal programming language.

[TheSisko]

i learned pascal in 1992-1993 and found it pretty straight forward once i learnt the basics.

[muhammadrozan]

Great tutorial, Sir! Your video explanation of Lazarus helped me with my current work in an easy-to-understand way. Thank you!

[jgcooper]

nevertheless, your tutorials in these series are very nice and useful, thanks.

[batlin]

For anyone running on Linux, you'll probably need to open the Console I/O window (ctrl-alt-o) to view standard output and send input. I can only get that to work when running with debugging on; otherwise you can use fpc from your shell.

[justjordan]

I was thinking of showing my Nephew how to program and start with Pascal as I did. Then I remembered I had to explain how DOS applications work. Maybe I will just use Java or C :) But I will goof around with my old Pascal knowledge :)

[SchoolFreeware]

Camtasia Studio 7 was used to make the video.

[SchoolFreeware]

The syntax of the language is english like. This makes it easy to understand compared to other languages like c++.

[omarsmith]

Hey...I would kindly need some help with pascal...its kinda confusing still..however my school gave me a task to complete by using pascal can I get some guidance towards this

[Tobbit]

There was a rumor that my prof would suddenly pull up a Pascal exercise. Now I'm here... :/

[gecsus]

SchoolFreeware; There is nothing regarding interrupts or events in this tutorial series. I could really use 'Function Key" operations and events. Is there no way to trap a Function Key Press?