Turbo Prototyping

After hacking Delphi for a little while, you'll probably notice that the learning curve is especially mild. In fact, even if you're new to Delphi, you'll find that writing your first project in Delphi pays immediate dividends in the form of a short development cycle and a robust application. Delphi excels in the one facet of application development that has been the bane of many a Windows programmer: user interface (UI) design.

Sometimes the design of the UI and the general layout of a program is referred to as prototyping. In a nonvisual environment, prototyping an application often takes longer than writing the application's implementation, or what is called the back end. Of course, the back end of an application is the whole ...

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