exercism/delphi/hello-world

Hello World

The classical introductory exercise. Just say "Hello, World!".

"Hello, World!" is the traditional first program for beginning programming in a new language or environment.

The objectives are simple:

• Write a function that returns the string "Hello, World!".
• Run the test suite and make sure that it succeeds.
• Submit your solution and check it at the website.

If everything goes well, you will be ready to fetch your first real exercise.

Testing

In order to run the tests for this track, you will need to install DUnitX. Please see the installation instructions for more information.

Loading Exercises into Delphi

If Delphi is properly installed, and *.dpr file types have been associated with Delphi, then double clicking the supplied *.dpr file will start Delphi and load the exercise/project. control + F9 is the keyboard shortcut to compile the project or pressing F9 will compile and run the project.

Alternatively you may opt to start Delphi and load your project via. the File drop down menu.

When Questions Come Up

We monitor the Pascal-Delphi support room on gitter.im to help you with any questions that might arise.

Submitting Exercises

Note that, when trying to submit an exercise, make sure the exercise file you're submitting is in the exercism/delphi/<exerciseName> directory.

For example, if you're submitting ubob.pas for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/delphi/bob/ubob.pas.

Source

This is an exercise to introduce users to using Exercism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Hello,_world!%22_program

Submitting Incomplete Solutions

It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.