On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 17:06:52 UTC, David DeWitt wrote:
On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 16:59:30 UTC, Chris wrote:
Have you been able to learn D? Yes or no? I'm sorry, if I'm
not always politically correct and I'm the first one to
understand the needs of programming novices, because we've all
been there (as you pointed out). My point is that for D you
will need a deeper understanding of things, and Ali's book
provides this. D is not like Javscript where type
"alert('Hello, world!');" and go "Yeah!". One cannot always
blame D and its community for mistakes and/or bad choices
people make.
Maybe the community (20 or so ppl) to write some quick
tutorials on common tasks like socket programming, file system
stuff, memory, etc... and we just combine them in a common
format on the D site (wiki maybe) and refer learners to that.
Alot of ground could be covered if we just organize that and
get it done. We really would need to create a section and
decide on what topics to cover and get on it.
That's a good idea. We should ask people what they need most
urgently. String manipulation is one. Then arrays, sockets,
concurrency? ... please continue. Let's make a thread about "how
do want to use D and what are the most urgent things for you?"
