Programming in D book, draft of the first print edition and eBook formats
Main page: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/ 1) For the first time, there are eBook formats: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/Programming_in_D_Ali_Cehreli.ALPHA.epub http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/Programming_in_D_Ali_Cehreli.ALPHA.mobi I used 'calibre' to generate those alpha quality books. I chose epub and mobi just because I thought that they are the most common formats. Just let me know if you need another format or simply use 'calibre' or another tool yourself. :) 2) There has been a lot of work to make the book ready for its first print edition. (I will spare you the details of countless hours of extra work that went into this eternal final step.) The PDF version finally looks a lot like a real book: * There is a Table of Contents section * There is an Index section * The internal links work 3) There are two new chapters: * Lvalues and Rvalues * Nested Functions, Structs, and Classes 4) There are the following notable additions to existing chapters: * 'pragma' is added to the Templates chapter * Special keywords are added to the Templates chapter (__FILE__, __LINE__, etc.) * Contract inheritance is added to the 'Contract Programming for Structs and Classes' chapter * The .offsetof property and the 'align' atribute are added to the 'Memory Management' chapter 5) I am grateful to Andrej Mitrović, Steven Schveighoffer, and Luís Marques, who accepted to edit the book. However, they are through only less than 10% of the book so far. As always, current or future mistakes are mine. :) Ali
Re: Programming in D book, draft of the first print edition and eBook formats
Awesome!
Re: Programming in D book, draft of the first print edition and eBook formats
Fantastic work.
Re: Programming in D book, draft of the first print edition and eBook formats
Thx, your book's just helped me last night (opSlice template not well explained in the official html). Two questions: - do you know that your website has serious design issue ? - does paper version mean no more free pdf/ebook ?
Re: Programming in D book, draft of the first print edition and eBook formats
This is HUGE! I've gone through many of your chapters, but it was just now, after seeing it as a one 700 pages long book, that I truly realized how much of a work this must have been. Thank you. Can't wait to have it on the shelf... Martin smime.p7s Description: Elektronicky podpis S/MIME
Re: dfix 0.2.0
On Tuesday, 25 November 2014 at 23:58:21 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: On Tuesday, 25 November 2014 at 23:47:07 UTC, Nordlöw wrote: On Tuesday, 25 November 2014 at 23:45:17 UTC, Nordlöw wrote: I guess one solution would be to make warnings non-errors right but that seems dumb concerning what dfix can do for us regarding auto-converting C-style arrays syntax to D-style :) The issue trackers for dfix and libdparse are on github. BTW: How do I specify that a dependency package (libdparse) should be compiled with -wi instead of -w? You can read DUB's documentation here: http://code.dlang.org/package-format It would be nice if we could call DUB either as dub -wi or in a more generic way as dub --dmd-flags=wi,... so I don't have to clone the top-level project and modify its dub.json myself in order to test dfix built using dmd git master. Should I register an DUB issue for this?
Re: dfix 0.2.0
On Wednesday, 26 November 2014 at 13:11:28 UTC, Nordlöw wrote: It would be nice if we could call DUB either as dub -wi or in a more generic way as dub --dmd-flags=wi,... so I don't have to clone the top-level project and modify its dub.json myself in order to test dfix built using dmd git master. Should I register an DUB issue for this? Note that DFLAGS=-wi dub build -v doesn't work here either because -wi is prepended to -w which still results warnings as errors.
Re: Programming in D book, draft of the first print edition and eBook formats
On Wednesday, 26 November 2014 at 10:34:24 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: Main page: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/ 1) For the first time, there are eBook formats: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/Programming_in_D_Ali_Cehreli.ALPHA.epub http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/Programming_in_D_Ali_Cehreli.ALPHA.mobi I used 'calibre' to generate those alpha quality books. I chose epub and mobi just because I thought that they are the most common formats. Just let me know if you need another format or simply use 'calibre' or another tool yourself. :) 2) There has been a lot of work to make the book ready for its first print edition. (I will spare you the details of countless hours of extra work that went into this eternal final step.) The PDF version finally looks a lot like a real book: * There is a Table of Contents section * There is an Index section * The internal links work 3) There are two new chapters: * Lvalues and Rvalues * Nested Functions, Structs, and Classes 4) There are the following notable additions to existing chapters: * 'pragma' is added to the Templates chapter * Special keywords are added to the Templates chapter (__FILE__, __LINE__, etc.) * Contract inheritance is added to the 'Contract Programming for Structs and Classes' chapter * The .offsetof property and the 'align' atribute are added to the 'Memory Management' chapter 5) I am grateful to Andrej Mitrović, Steven Schveighoffer, and Luís Marques, who accepted to edit the book. However, they are through only less than 10% of the book so far. As always, current or future mistakes are mine. :) Ali Well done, Ali - I will buy the ePub once the book is done. One suggestion: if you can, do what Ivan Ristic does with his SSL/TLS books (https://www.feistyduck.com). Basically, people who buy his books have unlimited access to book updates. Ivan is sending information about book updates whenever there is something new, so we readers can go back to the website and grab the latest version of the book. I think this is a much better approach than book editions, as they may appear years after each other... Sure, it is more complicated, but I think it pays off, and I do not mind book being little bit more expensive if I can access updated version of it. Cheers!
Re: Programming in D book, draft of the first print edition and eBook formats
One more thing - if you have the book in some wiki form, it may be a good idea to transform it into AsciiDoc as it has really nice ePub/PDF/HTML output.
Re: Programming in D book, draft of the first print edition and eBook formats
On 11/26/14 2:34 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: Main page: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/ 1) For the first time, there are eBook formats: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/Programming_in_D_Ali_Cehreli.ALPHA.epub http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/Programming_in_D_Ali_Cehreli.ALPHA.mobi Fantastic! I wanted to mention this on reddit but noticed that (a) http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/ has the left menu in Turkish, and (b) there are no links to the ebooks from that page. Could you please fix that? Thanks, Andrei
Re: Programming in D book, draft of the first print edition and eBook formats
On 11/26/2014 03:42 AM, Anonymous wrote: - do you know that your website has serious design issue ? Of course. :( - does paper version mean no more free pdf/ebook ? My current thinking is that all of the ebook formats should be free but also purchasable. A distributor like Smashwords would reach more readers. However, a person who is interested in D would find the book on my site anyway. (I wonder whether Smashwords would allow me to also provide the book for free on my site?) For the print version, I am thinking about Amazon's CreateSpace mainly because unlike Lulu and many other self-publishing houses they accept more than 440 pages. Ali
Re: Programming in D book, draft of the first print edition and eBook formats
On 11/26/2014 06:27 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote: whenever there is something new, so we readers can go back to the website and grab the latest version of the book. That has always been the case with Programming in D. Although there has been a hiatus of about two months this last time, Luís Marques' edits from this morning have already made it to the site as we speak. ;) I think this is a much better approach than book editions, as they may appear years after each other... Sure, it is more complicated, but I think it pays off It is not complicated at all. I type 'make', copy the generated .zip file to the hosting site, unzip, and the edits are live! :) (Although, the .epub and .mobi formats are not integrated to the Makefile yet.) On 11/26/2014 08:55 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote: One more thing - if you have the book in some wiki form, it may be a good idea to transform it into AsciiDoc as it has really nice ePub/PDF/HTML output. For historical reasons I started with Ddoc. I can investigate converting it to AsciiDoc but honestly I am not motivated much to do that. :) Currently, Ddoc is first converted to HTML and I use the HTML to generate different final formats. Ali
Re: Programming in D book, draft of the first print edition and eBook formats
On 11/26/2014 09:24 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I wanted to mention this on reddit That site is fine. but noticed that (a) http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/ has the left menu in Turkish That site sucks! :) and (b) there are no links to the ebooks from that page. I intentionally did not link the alpha-quality stuff. Pictures are missing, chapter numbers vary between -1 and 2, etc. :p Let me deal with it after I eat some Thanksgiving turkey tomorrow. Speaking of which, thank you everybody! :) Ali
Re: Programming in D book, draft of the first print edition and eBook formats
Congrats on (nearly) finishing your book. It's one of the best D resources available and very high quality.
Re: Programming in D book, draft of the first print edition and eBook formats
On Wednesday, 26 November 2014 at 10:34:24 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: Main page: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/ 1) For the first time, there are eBook formats: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/Programming_in_D_Ali_Cehreli.ALPHA.epub http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/Programming_in_D_Ali_Cehreli.ALPHA.mobi I used 'calibre' to generate those alpha quality books. I chose epub and mobi just because I thought that they are the most common formats. Just let me know if you need another format or simply use 'calibre' or another tool yourself. :) 2) There has been a lot of work to make the book ready for its first print edition. (I will spare you the details of countless hours of extra work that went into this eternal final step.) The PDF version finally looks a lot like a real book: * There is a Table of Contents section * There is an Index section * The internal links work 3) There are two new chapters: * Lvalues and Rvalues * Nested Functions, Structs, and Classes 4) There are the following notable additions to existing chapters: * 'pragma' is added to the Templates chapter * Special keywords are added to the Templates chapter (__FILE__, __LINE__, etc.) * Contract inheritance is added to the 'Contract Programming for Structs and Classes' chapter * The .offsetof property and the 'align' atribute are added to the 'Memory Management' chapter 5) I am grateful to Andrej Mitrović, Steven Schveighoffer, and Luís Marques, who accepted to edit the book. However, they are through only less than 10% of the book so far. As always, current or future mistakes are mine. :) Ali This is great news. I'm excited to have more than TDPL sitting on my shelf.
Re: D/Objective-C 64bit
Why not use a constructor and let the compiler manage the
boilerplate?
this(NSRect frame) [initWithFrame:] {
//my stuff
super(frame);
}
This should emit the same code as the function above (but I
haven't tested). And then you can write:
auto view = new KeyboardView(someFrame);
and have proper type safety.
Thanks Michel, my question was based on a completely wrong
assumption (really sorry, my bad), the code of course works,
which is again really cool about the D/Objective-C bridging.
When I prepare the framework glue headers I usually add both
variations init.. and this(), so the coder who uses it can take
the shortcut if he prefers. I try to stay as close as possible to
the naming conventions of the Cocoa framework, it facilitates
somewhat the documentation lookup in Xcode. Named parameters is
probably the feature I like most about Objective-C, it makes the
code so much more readable and auto-documents, if one is careful.
Re: Programming in D book, draft of the first print edition and eBook formats
On 11/26/2014 11:35 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: I wonder whether Smashwords would allow me to also provide the book for free on my site? Found the answer to that question: 6c. Free Copies. As administrator of your work, Author may use the Smashwords platform to distribute complimentary copies of the work, or personally email free files to people, even when you are generally charging a fee. However, Smashwords files cannot be mass-distributed via download at blogs, websites or other retailers outside the Smashwords network. https://www.smashwords.com/about/tos Ali
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Re: Programming in D book, draft of the first print edition and eBook formats
On Wednesday, 26 November 2014 at 23:16:11 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 11/26/2014 11:35 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: I wonder whether Smashwords would allow me to also provide the book for free on my site? Found the answer to that question: 6c. Free Copies. As administrator of your work, Author may use the Smashwords platform to distribute complimentary copies of the work, or personally email free files to people, even when you are generally charging a fee. However, Smashwords files cannot be mass-distributed via download at blogs, websites or other retailers outside the Smashwords network. https://www.smashwords.com/about/tos I think you are misinterpreting that clause. I had never heard of Smashwords before, so I just looked at their site and their TOS. What they do is take your book in doc format and generate ebook formats that can be sold online and to other book retailers, as detailed in clause 5 of their TOS: 5. Formats of Digital Conversions. Author shall submit their Work as a Microsoft Word .doc file. Smashwords shall utilize its proprietary Meatgrinder technology to convert the book into multiple ebook formats, and publish the work for use in sampling, distributing and selling the work. The author/publisher is not authorized to independently sell or distribute Smashwords-generated file conversions outside of the Smashwords site or Smashwords distribution network without first receiving written permission from Smashwords (in other words, you cannot use Smashwords as a free file conversion service so you can sell the files elsewhere). You acknowledge that if you violate this requirement, you may forfeit any accrued earnings at Smashwords, and your account may be deleted without notification. I believe both clauses simply says you cannot distribute their converted ebook files: note that 6c says you cannot mass distribute Smashwords files, not the Work, which is how they refer to your book itself. They also say on their site that you are free to use other distributors and retain copyright over your work. Few would fault you for not wanting to give away free copies if you're selling the book, but I don't think Smashwords has a say in the matter.
