On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 20:18:59 UTC, tcak wrote:
I am looking at the main page of dlang.org, and really there is
no page to warm up a new comer to D language. Sure, there are
book links, details of language as "D Reference" etc, but those
are not suitable for a new starting guy.
Showing the features of language with SIMPLE examples in many
pages could be very useful in my opinion.
I liked rust's example page: http://rustbyexample.com/hello.html
but it is still not for a new comer. Too much writing is there.
It should be like "Do those things, and see what value you will
see.".
Now, as always the question is, "Who is going to prepare
those?". We need:
1. A link to example pages on left side of web page.
2. 5 simple examples those are written in separate pages.
3. Give link to each page for next example.
By the time, people can contribute to there. When there is no
base, nobody is taking any steps.
Ill be honest, that Getting Started page was my idea.
Its a great start no matter what programming experience youre
going through.
It is supposed to be a simple and proper tutorial which guides
new users/programmers through the most essential parts.
The problem is that we didnt have the time to make it happen. But
ill run down a simple timeline from beginning to end:
-Simple Hello World / simple Compiler usage tutorial
-Variable types / auto (auto needs to be explained because we see
it often)
-Integers/numbers/floats etc...
-Simple number mathematical operators and examples
-some string functions
-some array samples
-some string / array manipulation
-loops
-imports / modules
-Object oriented projects and structure
-io file and path functions
-Extras and Useful functions (This serves as a small tutorial for
extremely useful
functions that we use often)
----Thread.sleep(), etc...
-Dub Tutorial and using third party libraries
-Ahli Cerellis Book for more advanced programming detail,
techniques and schemes
