Summary

In this chapter, we have covered different basic as well as more advanced elements of the Object Pascal language used in Delphi. There are many tutorials and language primers that cover all elements of the language in detail. A good and deep knowledge of the language is important to be able to master Delphi, but this chapter should have helped you cover some of the basics and touched upon some of the features used later in the book.

In the first part of the chapter, we reviewed the structure of a typical Delphi application from the memory game app that we will build in the next few chapters. The second part of the chapter covered select elements of the Object Pascal language, such as type helpers, generics, and anonymous code, that are needed to better understand the code that comes with the Delphi installation and you need to use very frequently, such as generic lists of objects.

In the next chapter, we are going to build on our language knowledge and review the functionality...