INTRODUCTION TO BORLAND DELPHI
Borland Delphi IDE (Integrated Development Environment): Main Menu, Speed Bar, Component Pallets, Object Tree View, Object Inspector, Code Editor, Form Designer. Creating and saving the Delphi Project. View the Project and Form source code. Properties and Events handling.

PROGRAM STRUCTURE, DATA TYPES AND OPERATORS
Basic structure of Delphi programming: Uses, Type, Private, Protected, Public, Const and Var Clauses. Delphi data types: Integer, Real, Boolean, Char, String, Array, Record, Range, Variant, Set, Arrays, Record and Pointers data types. Operators in Delphi programming: Relational, Boolean, Bitwise, Arithmetic and String operators.

PROGRAMMING CONTROL IN DELPHI
Sequential control. Boolean expressions. Branching: If-Then-Else, Try-Except, Try-Finally and Case-Of statements. Looping: For-Do, While-Do and Repeat-Until statements. Procedure and Functions: standard and recursion Procedure and Functions, value and variable parameters.

USING DELPHI STANDARD COMPONENTS
Some components in the Standard, Additional, Win32, System, Dialogs and Win3.1 component pallets.

STANDARD DATABASE PROGRAMMING
Using Database Desktop. Creating table and index files with TTable and TQuery components. Using table and data manipulation with TTable and TQuery components. Using BDE, Data Controls, Data Access and Quick Report components in the POS (Point of Sales) case study.

CLIENT-SERVER DATABASE PROGRAMMING
Introduction to My-SQL Database. My-SQL Server and My-SQL ODBC (open database connectivity) Data Source installation. Connect to My-SQL Server and data manipulation with ADO components. Connect to My-SQL Server and data manipulation with My-DAC components.