On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:10:00 +0000, Louis wrote: > Does anyone know of any good books that talk about how computers work > abstractly enough to be a solid cross language foundation? [...] > There is no "Beginning D" or "D For Dummies" yet.
There is a Turkish D book that targets programming novices: http://ddili.org/ders/d/index.html It starts with the basic concepts and and ends with Parallelization, Concurrency, Manual Memory Management, etc. Unfortunately, it doesn't go into programming theory or how computers work. It must be seen as some information from a craftsperson to new craftspeople. I am in the process of translating that book to English. This is the first time that I am giving a link to a very draft current state of the English translation: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html Contrary to what that page may makes one think, the Exceptions chapter has a draft translation as well: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/exceptions.html And finally the Ranges chapter is a work in progress: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/ranges.html All of the above is a draft and I haven't "announced" the English version yet. Not even here! :) I have to go over the chapters at least five more times to make many corrections. Although, since it's a translation, I don't think I will change the content much. Enjoy! Ali
