What should you know about Delphi?

Grade 10

General / Introduction Programming environment
GUI
Event Handlers
Events such as OnClick, OnClose,
OnShow, OnMouseMove
Components: Edit, Checkbox, Radio Group, Label, Panel, Listbox, RichEdit, Memo, BitButton
Form class

Data Types and variables
Integer, Real, Character
String, Boolean
Scope of variables

Input & Output
InputBox
Input and output components and
properties: Edit, Checkbox, Radio Group, Label, Panel, Listbox, RichEdit and Memo
Formatting output in RichEdit using tabs and new line / return characters

Operators & Operations
Mathematical: +, -, *, /, Div, mod
Relational: <, >, =, <>, <=, >=
Boolean: AND, OR, NOT
Precedence and brackets
Simple string manipulation: Length, Pos, Concat (+), Uppercase, Copy, Delete, Insert, Val

Includes data type conversion such as IntToStr, StrToInt, StrToFloat, StrToIntDef, FloatToString, FloatToStrF, to be able to do mathematical and string manipulations

Control structures
Sequential
Selection
- Single selection IF … then
- Double selection IF … then … else
- Multiple selection Case
Repetition
- Counting For … do
- Conditional While … do
- Repeat … until

Classes and objects
Form Class

Methods (functions and procedures)
Mathematical such as sqr, sqrt, round, trunc, abs, random, power, min, max, frac, int, odd, dec, inc, etc .
Modules
- Simple user defined functions and procedures using parameter passing e.g.
CalcInterest(12) if 12% interest should be added, GetMonthName(6) to determine the name of month number 6. (not reference parameters)
Call functions and procedures

GUI
IDE – Delphi

Defensive programming
Meaningful error messages to user e.g. message dialogue boxes
Error checking techniques
- Check that data has been entered / compulsory fields
- Check that the right type of data has been entered e.g. Real or Integer using VAL-procedure
- Check that data is valid (falls between a certain range)
- Use the MaskEdit to ensure valid data (for use in projects only)

Algorithms / problem solving and fundamental programming concepts
Swop two values
Determine smallest, largest value of more than two values
Isolate digits in an integer value
Determine whether a number is a prime number, even, odd number
Determine whether a number is a factor of another number

Grade 11

Data structures
Database with two tables
1 D arrays
Classes and Objects

Control structures
Sequential
Selection (nested)
Repetition (nested)
- Conditional While … do
- Repeat … until
Including sentinel value (flag)

1-D Arrays
- Declare
- Basic I/O manipulation
- Simple sort using a method in a class
- Sequential search (including use of sentinel value) using a method in a class
- Simple calculations such as calculating average, sum

Database and programming
• Setup ADO connection
• Use tables in database and manipulate records and fields through Delphi code using SQL statements
• Find a specific record in a table using Locate

Classes and objects
• Creation of classes and class design
• Coding methods (including constructors, get/set, toString) to perform calculations or manipulate the attributes of an object.

GUI
Delphi IDE
Events and event handlers
Components as specified in Grade 10 as well as PageControl with pages, DBGrid

Defensive programming
Try…Except
Try…Finally
Data validation, e.g. checking for presence, range, uniqueness, length, type and check-digit.
Return meaningful error messages

Operations
Sting manipulation: All methods used in Grade 10 as well as Insert, Delete

Algorithms / problem solving
Data validation

Grade 12

Data structures
Text files
Arrays – 2D
Classes and Objects
Database – at least 2 tables
Array of objects (1 D)

Database and programming
• Setup ADO connection
• Use tables in database and manipulate records and fields through Delphi code using SQL statements

Classes and objects
• Create arrays of objects
• Create classes using inheritance (for implementation in 2009)
• Create arrays of objects of parent and inherited classes (for implementation in 2009)

GUI Events and event handlers
Delphi IDE
Events and event handlers
Components
OnExit events to be used with error control

Operations
Text files:
• AssignFile
• Reset / Rewrite
• Readln / Write / Writeln
• CloseFile
• While not Eof
• Import data from text file
• Export data to text file
String manipulation
2D arrays
• Simple processing e.g. row and column totals
Array of object manipulation

Algorithms and problem solving
Data validation and defensive programming using components, programming techniques specified in Grades 10 and 11 as well as code in OnExit events.
Design own algorithms to solve problems

(Taken from LPG Document, Jan. 2008)