Craig Dillabaugh Posted in reply to qznc



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On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 19:18:40 UTC, qznc wrote: > I believe one of the things D needs right now is more documentation. Therefore, I started writing a tutorial. > > It is aimed at people who can already program well in other languages. This means nothing about loops or structs, because I expect most people to know this stuff. I do not consider D to be a language for beginners anyways. > > It is aiming for pragmatic not comprehensive advice. For example, I mostly ignore LDC and GDC except for the optimization chapter. > > Since I am working on Linux exclusively and I like the command line, I cannot teach to Windows users. Sorry. > > This is still very incomplete and my our newborn family member requires quite some attention. So expect this to develop with glacial speed. ;) > > Nevertheless, I want to put this version 0.1 out to get some feedback. What do you think about the topic selection? What topics are missing? Serious errors so far? > > http:// beza1e1. tuxen.de/ d-tut-0.1/ index.html > > Wreck it! :) I believe one of the things D needs right now is more documentation. Therefore, I started writing a tutorial.It is aimed at people who can already program well in other languages. This means nothing about loops or structs, because I expect most people to know this stuff. I do not consider D to be a language for beginners anyways.It is aiming for pragmatic not comprehensive advice. For example, I mostly ignore LDC and GDC except for the optimization chapter.Since I am working on Linux exclusively and I like the command line, I cannot teach to Windows users. Sorry.This is still very incomplete and my our newborn family member requires quite some attention. So expect this to develop with glacial speed. ;)Nevertheless, I want to put this version 0.1 out to get some feedback. What do you think about the topic selection? What topics are missing? Serious errors so far?Wreck it! :) http:// beza1e1. tuxen.de/ d-tut-0.1/ philoso phy.html while I got a chuckle out of "D is what C++ wanted to be.", I might omit this. Insulting C++ isn't likely a great way to attract the C++ crowd, which is one of our major target audiences. Good work, Craig