On Saturday, 26 August 2017 at 22:26:00 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
First I'd like to say the Dlang-Tour is a very good idea.
Personally, *everytime* I push the "next" button I'm surprised
there is *only* 1 example, while I'd expect at least 3 or 4
examples showing :
1. how to declare, use and print variables, including strings,
slices and maps.
2. how to declare imperative functions
3. how to declare classes with attributes and methods
4. how to call functions and methods with the same dot
notation, with or without parentheses
Anyway, that's not what I wanted to say in this post.
My point is that when you arrive to the further reading, you
are invited to buy Ali's book :
"Basic resources
New to programming? This book is a great starting place for
beginners"
I've no problem with that, but would it be possible to consider
adding also a link to this tutorial in the same paragraph ?
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/d_programming/
It's not because TutorialsPoint pay me, but because it may be
one of the best D tutorials out there for both beginner D
programmers.
And honestly, at the moment it's not really that easy to reach
this tutorial from the dlang website.
First you have to push on "Tutorials", then in the middle of
the page you see a boring flat grey icon with this text beside :
"D programming
Unknown
January 1, 2015
A nice introductory tutorial to D programming. Available
on-line and in the PDF format.
Website"
The text is fine, but unfortunately the impersonal icon and
text ("D programming") aren't that inviting...
If you don't want to put the link on the "Further reading
page", maybe would you consider putting this nice tutorial for
beginners just under the four official D books, before the more
advanced readings ?
I guess many beginner D programmers will thank you :)
Because a few month ago I've been that beginner D programmer,
and sadly I've completely missed this perfect tutorial. And
I've just explained you why...
So why not supposing other programmers will have the same
problem, and maybe miss it just like me ?
The tutorial needs to cover advance topics such as manual memory
management and the standard phobos library. It only scratchs the
surface of the D programming language and it is not showing how
powerful that D is, when it comes to the template programming
when comparing to c++ template programming.
