What is the easiest/most effective way to learn Delphi?

Question

I am totally new to programming and I have chosen Delphi as the programming language that I would like to learn.

I basically want to build tools that will fill and submi

Answer 1

I am a self-taught programmer. I started programming at the age of 12, when I got my hands on Delphi 4 Personal, which was distributed in computer magazines free of charge. (Yes, this is basically why today I am a Delphi expert. In retrospect, hence, it was a very fruitful tactical decision of Borland to make a Personal edition. Surely they got a very large number of developers this way.)

I learned everything by studying examples and by trial and error. This took quite a few years, but it surely worked. Also, since Delphi is a native Win32 compiler, to master Delphi development, you need to master Win32 development. An invaluable resource then is MSDN and general Win32 programming books (such as The Old New Thing by Microsoft legend Raymond Chen). Also, don't forget there is quite a number of interesting good Delphi blogs.

Also, to push further as a programmer, you need to practice, on "hard" things.