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First, some background on me. I have a basic understanding of programming. And I do mean basic, as in I am not even an intermediate code writer. I had a very introductory class in Fortran IV when I was in High School as part of a weekend college program (non-credit). I got familiar with Atari basic well enough to learn how to create a dice-rolling simulation for the Parker Brothers game of Risk, which kept track of the number of armies for both the attacker and defender and displayed each dice roll and how many aries each side lost. It used a random number generator and kept track of up to 5 dice, up to 2 for the defender and up to 3 for the attacker. I learned how to do decision tree logic, subroutines, go-to statements, and more, but it wasn't really all that deep. I learned what I needed as I went through the process of building the program. So I am familiar a bit with a flow chart, too. For those here who never played risk, it's a world conquest strategy/chance game. Anyway, I was just starting to learn Delphi maybe 20 years ago and had a good book that was a tutorial that took the beginner through some basic GUI forms and I was starting to learn about writing code that would run when things on the form clicked. Then I gave up and about 10 years later tried learning Visual Basic. I had an H. W. Sams book something like "Learn Visual Basic in 24 hours" or maybe it was "Learn Visual Basic in X days." It was also a tutorial book and I wrote my first image viewer program. I used the code the book gave me, so it wasn't that I figured out how to write that program myself. I once again had some interest in Vb.net and have the community edition. I couldn't find any recent books on the language that were like those books I used before. I understand that Visual Basic isn't known for being backwards compatible, so programs written with older code might not work anyway, so the older books were not useful. So, I am looking at Delphi once again, since I remember it was easier to learn how to do things in Delphi than what little I learned in VB. I a mow installing the community edition of Delphi and am hoping someone can recommend a book or two for BEGINNERS. I read the recent thread: https://en.delphipraxis.net/topic/8639-which-is-the-best-book-to-learn-delphi/?tab=comments#comment-72820 But it really didn't answer the OP's question on the subject of a good beginner's book. I don't want to spend money on an advanced book that starts way beyond where I need to start. I can pay for a good book or two, and move on from there as I learn more. So, can anyone here recommend a specific book to learn Delphi from? A combination of 2 or even 3 (or more) books is OK, but I need books that start at ground zero and don't require prior knowledge of any other language. I'd rather have a book that is too simple than too complicated for my entry level knowledge. Donald

Thank you both. I will check out those resources.

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