This book teaches beginners how to program using Delphi. It assumes no prior programming experience. This book teaches sound programming and problem-solving concepts that make it appropriate for a CS1 level course for CS, CIS, MIS, Business, or Continuing Education courses. The book includes a CD containing Delphi 5 Standard Edition.

Delphi is an Object Pascal-based development environment that is widely used in the corporate sector. As a point of comparison, Delphi is similar to Visual Basic but is more robust. The book is designed to teach Delphi programming to those without any programming experience.