Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 12:39:23 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 07:51:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Looks like this got junked. -- Andrei hmm, that was my first time ever posting to reddit so maybe that's why. Regardless, when the dconf talks come around I'll post the link in those comments too and that'll hopefully make up for it. @ Adam D. Ruppe: Where should we ask questions and post spotted issues regarding your pretty great book?
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 13:34:11 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: @ Adam D. Ruppe: Where should we ask questions and post spotted issues regarding your pretty great book? Packt's website has an errata section somewhere, I can't find it now because they redesigned the site, but a lot of chapter 1 errors are on that (typos and stuff). If you can find that, that's one option, but I'd say just discuss it here or in the main dm.D newsgroup.
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 13:38:42 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 13:34:11 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: @ Adam D. Ruppe: Where should we ask questions and post spotted issues regarding your pretty great book? Packt's website has an errata section somewhere, I can't find it now because they redesigned the site, but a lot of chapter 1 errors are on that (typos and stuff). If you can find that, that's one option, but I'd say just discuss it here or in the main dm.D newsgroup. Asking because I noticed few minor things like multiple commas or too many brackets etc, but also because I am trying to go through Interfacing with C++ chapter and I am having some problems (VC++ x64, Win7): 1st I managed to solve and I think it could be useful for other that try to follow this chapter: http://forum.dlang.org/thread/ugkpqprobonorbdun...@forum.dlang.org 2nd I am now stuck with and not much idea how to continue. http://forum.dlang.org/thread/hsglkscatlniiuacp...@forum.dlang.org I am actually very much interested in this because of COFF support for Win32 in DMD merged recently.
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On 5/28/14, 10:34 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I just posted it to reddit btw: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26pn00/d_cookbook_officially_published_consists_of_d/ Looks like this got junked. -- Andrei
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 07:51:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Looks like this got junked. -- Andrei hmm, that was my first time ever posting to reddit so maybe that's why. Regardless, when the dconf talks come around I'll post the link in those comments too and that'll hopefully make up for it.
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 16:51:56 UTC, Mattcoder wrote: Question: But any mistakes like those founded will be updated? Just heard back: maybe on the pdf, probably not on print due to it not being worth the cost. Most likely they'll just be some eratta listed on the site.
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 14:20:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 13:27:56 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Will epub version be available too? Yeah, I think it is already on the packt website. I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version include the errata described above? -mike-
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On 28/05/2014 9:00 AM, Mike James wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 14:20:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 13:27:56 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Will epub version be available too? Yeah, I think it is already on the packt website. I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version include the errata described above? -mike- I've not checked them side-by-side the whole way through but the ePub does have the same triple colons as the PDF. the ePub uses colour instead of font weight for the keywords in the text and the notes and tips are styled differently, but as far as I've seen so far the content is the same. A...
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 09:06:12 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote: On 28/05/2014 9:00 AM, Mike James wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 14:20:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 13:27:56 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Will epub version be available too? Yeah, I think it is already on the packt website. I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version include the errata described above? -mike- I've not checked them side-by-side the whole way through but the ePub does have the same triple colons as the PDF. the ePub uses colour instead of font weight for the keywords in the text and the notes and tips are styled differently, but as far as I've seen so far the content is the same. A... Thanks. As 'early adopters' do we get a chance to upgrade :-) -mike-
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 08:01:00 UTC, Mike James wrote: I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version include the errata described above? Yeah, those errors were in the .doc I sent in after revisions on chapter 1 and we didn't catch them in the final draft. But the subsequent chapters did them all right so hopefully people won't be turned off by the (IMO fairly weak anyway) first chapter before things get interesting later on.
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 10:00:01 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 19:58:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 5/6/2014 9:11 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 12:40:48 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Any way to see the TOC? Hmm, not on the website yet but here it is. [snip] Sounds awesome! Jus got mail from PacktPub: D Cookbook is now released: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book Congratz! Thanks for the update. I have the pdf loaded up now, looking forward to going through it.
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 14:06:33 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 08:01:00 UTC, Mike James wrote: I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version include the errata described above? Yeah, those errors were in the .doc I sent in after revisions on chapter 1 and we didn't catch them in the final draft. But the subsequent chapters did them all right so hopefully people won't be turned off by the (IMO fairly weak anyway) first chapter before things get interesting later on. Question: But any mistakes like those founded will be updated? And if it yes, who already purchased the PDF book will be able to download the new file corrected too? Matheus.
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 16:51:56 UTC, Mattcoder wrote: On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 14:06:33 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 08:01:00 UTC, Mike James wrote: I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version include the errata described above? Yeah, those errors were in the .doc I sent in after revisions on chapter 1 and we didn't catch them in the final draft. But the subsequent chapters did them all right so hopefully people won't be turned off by the (IMO fairly weak anyway) first chapter before things get interesting later on. Question: But any mistakes like those founded will be updated? And if it yes, who already purchased the PDF book will be able to download the new file corrected too? Matheus. s/founded/found.
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
I just posted it to reddit btw: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26pn00/d_cookbook_officially_published_consists_of_d/
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On 5/28/2014 10:34 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I just posted it to reddit btw: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26pn00/d_cookbook_officially_published_consists_of_d/ Just snagged my copy!
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 19:58:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 5/6/2014 9:11 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 12:40:48 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Any way to see the TOC? Hmm, not on the website yet but here it is. [snip] Sounds awesome! Jus got mail from PacktPub: D Cookbook is now released: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book Congratz!
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 10:00:01 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 19:58:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 5/6/2014 9:11 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 12:40:48 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Any way to see the TOC? Hmm, not on the website yet but here it is. [snip] Sounds awesome! Jus got mail from PacktPub: D Cookbook is now released: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book Congratz! Just downloaded the eBook version. Printed version will soon follow, I suppose. It couldn't have arrived at a better time, because I'm re-organizing and revising my code at the moment.
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 10:00:01 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 19:58:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 5/6/2014 9:11 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 12:40:48 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Any way to see the TOC? Hmm, not on the website yet but here it is. [snip] Sounds awesome! Jus got mail from PacktPub: D Cookbook is now released: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book Congratz! I am reading it now, but there is a lot of errata :(.
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 11:43:32 UTC, Kozzi wrote: I am reading it now, but there is a lot of errata :(. What do you mean?
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 11:43:32 UTC, Kozzi wrote: I am reading it now, but there is a lot of errata :(. Well that's a good thing about PDF, because you can fix it and update the version online. Matheus.
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
I mean there is a lot of typo (for e.g. multiple ';' chars at the end of
line, import std.stdio : writeln;;;)
on page 2,6,8,10,14 ...
On page 19:
static Vector fromPoint(float[2] point) {
import std.math;
Vector v;
float x = point[0];
float y= point[1];
v.magnitude = sqrt(x ^^ 2 + y ^^ 2);
v.direction = atan2(y, x);
return v;
}}} // this 3 brackets
Vector opBinary(string op : +)(Vector rhs) const {
auto point = toPoint(), point2 = rhs.toPoint();
point[0] += point2[0];
point[1] += point2[1];];]; // here
return Vector.fromPoint(point);); // and here
}
That is what I already found
Dne Tue, 27 May 2014 13:45:53 +0200 Adam D. Ruppe via
Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com napsal(a):
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 11:43:32 UTC, Kozzi wrote:
I am reading it now, but there is a lot of errata :(.
What do you mean?
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Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 11:57:05 UTC, Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I mean there is a lot of typo (for e.g. multiple ';' chars at the end of line, import std.stdio : writeln;;;) Blargh, the code got screwed up something nasty through the revision process (chapter 6 especially, the spacing got totally butchered, the end of virtually every line had random characters, wtf, the file got changed from a .doc to a .docx in that process too which i suspect is to blame) and I thought I fixed all those in the final draft but apparently not... I suspect that'll get better past chapter 1; chapter one needed so much content revision that I didn't spend as much time on the punctuation in the review process.
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 12:05:43 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 11:57:05 UTC, Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I mean there is a lot of typo (for e.g. multiple ';' chars at the end of line, import std.stdio : writeln;;;) Blargh, the code got screwed up something nasty through the revision process (chapter 6 especially, the spacing got totally butchered, the end of virtually every line had random characters, wtf, the file got changed from a .doc to a .docx in that process too which i suspect is to blame) and I thought I fixed all those in the final draft but apparently not... I suspect that'll get better past chapter 1; chapter one needed so much content revision that I didn't spend as much time on the punctuation in the review process. Tell me about formatting getting lost while re-formatting. But why on earth do people (publishers / editors) still insist on using .doc and .docx (i.e. MS)!? This is to invite disaster. Laziness? Saving money? Nah, you'll work and pay more in the end. Incompetence? I dunno.
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 12:59:59 UTC, Chris wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 12:05:43 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 11:57:05 UTC, Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I mean there is a lot of typo (for e.g. multiple ';' chars at the end of line, import std.stdio : writeln;;;) Blargh, the code got screwed up something nasty through the revision process (chapter 6 especially, the spacing got totally butchered, the end of virtually every line had random characters, wtf, the file got changed from a .doc to a .docx in that process too which i suspect is to blame) and I thought I fixed all those in the final draft but apparently not... I suspect that'll get better past chapter 1; chapter one needed so much content revision that I didn't spend as much time on the punctuation in the review process. Tell me about formatting getting lost while re-formatting. But why on earth do people (publishers / editors) still insist on using .doc and .docx (i.e. MS)!? This is to invite disaster. Laziness? Saving money? Nah, you'll work and pay more in the end. Incompetence? I dunno. Will epub version be available too?
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 13:27:56 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Will epub version be available too? Yeah, I think it is already on the packt website.
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 16:38:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book I just agreed with Packt to write a foreword for the book. -- Andrei I just read the foreword. It's great!
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 12:40:48 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Any way to see the TOC? Hmm, not on the website yet but here it is. Each one is shown through examples (with a few exceptions where I couldn't think of a good example but wanted to discuss the principle behind it anyway): Chapter 1: Core Tasks, has a brief introduction to D then gets into using modules, libraries, immutability, classes, basic stuff to get you acquainted with the core language. BTW the book assumes you already know basic programming stuff, so I don't explain what variables are and stuff like that. Chapter 2: Phobos, goes over some phobos modules to show you the basic idea. Covers files and directories, socket clients and servers, zlib, random numbers, and a bit more. It isn't comprehensive, there's the documentation for that, but it covers a few important points you'll need to know throughout through representative examples. Chapter 3: Ranges goes over how to create a range, use a range (including something I had to ask the group: what is a generic input range?), transform ranges, and use some of the algorithms. Also goes into why the efficiency rules are important (don't emulate range features you don't really support) by showing a bad sort result with a linked list that pretends to be an array. Chapter 4: Integration talks about how to integrate with outside code, including calling C functions (including doing your own bindings and using implib on Windows), C++ interfaces, Windows API and Linux system calls in asm, C functions calling D, using COM, cross-language resource management (briefly) and I show some convenient scripting bindings using opDispatch with my script.d Chapter 5: Resource Management gives tips on avoiding the GC, writing your own reference counted objects, using owned pointers, and stuff like how not to use class destructors. Chapter 6: Wrapped Types goes into a bunch of struct features you can use to wrap other things. Includes a cute trick to make a gettext translation file in D alone, operator overloading, disabling default construction, etc. Chapter 7: Correctness Checking talks about bug catching. Includes an introduction to ddoc, static assert, throw vs assert, @safe, and more. Chapter 8: Reflection goes into compile time and runtime reflection including TypeInfo, __traits, is(), std.traits, and using module constructors to extend typeinfo. Culminates in an automatic function caller from the command line, showing how to get functions by name, convert strings to their arguments, and their return values back to strings, all generically with CT reflection. Chapter 9: Code Generation talks about user-defined literals (including showing a disassembly to you can prove it did what it was supposed to do), template value parameters, string mixins, domain-specific language converters (including a relatively traditional programming language and an ASCII art diagram conversion to a struct), and talks about doing more efficient generation with the right statements so the optimizer can do its magic. Chapter 10: Multitasking introduces you to threads, fibers, pipe process, and std.parallelism. I don't go too deeply into all this since I think the documentation and Andrei's book both did a good job and I didn't have a lot to add. (generally, I wanted my book to be a nice complement to Andrei's book and avoid repeating documentation, so it is genuinely something new that you might not have seen before. Though much of it is stuff I've talked about on the forums, stack overflow, or IRC, so it won't be all new if you've seen my posts over the last couple years.) Chapter 11: Kernel coding in D gets you started using D on bare metal x86; booting your PC to a D program without an operating system. Shows how to remove druntime then add back the minimal parts to get hello world to compile, how to easily compile and link the program so it can run without the OS (a simpler process can be used to make a minimal tiny binary that works on an OS btw, it would be like using D as C), then kinda dumps some code on you to get keyboard interrupt handling working. I didn't go into the details of how the hardware specific code works; I didn't explain what an interrupt table actually is or why its format is so weird, but I did give you the pieces to make it work and discuss the D features that are helpful in this environment (and some pitfalls) like naked asm functions. Chapter 12: Web and GUI programming shows how to get some fun stuff started with my misc github libraries including a dynamic website, a desktop graphics demo, some image file manipulation, an OpenGL window, and my dom.d for HTML parsing and manipulation. The main focus isn't so much how to use the libraries though, there's the [s]docs[/s] lol, the source and emailing me with questions for that. Instead, I talked more about how I implemented them and some lessons learned in
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 13:12:01 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 12:40:48 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Any way to see the TOC? Hmm, not on the website yet but here it is. Each one is shown through examples (with a few exceptions where I couldn't think of a good example but wanted to discuss the principle behind it anyway): Chapter 1: Core Tasks, has a brief introduction to D then gets into using modules, libraries, immutability, classes, basic stuff to get you acquainted with the core language. BTW the book assumes you already know basic programming stuff, so I don't explain what variables are and stuff like that. Chapter 2: Phobos, goes over some phobos modules to show you the basic idea. Covers files and directories, socket clients and servers, zlib, random numbers, and a bit more. It isn't comprehensive, there's the documentation for that, but it covers a few important points you'll need to know throughout through representative examples. Chapter 3: Ranges goes over how to create a range, use a range (including something I had to ask the group: what is a generic input range?), transform ranges, and use some of the algorithms. Also goes into why the efficiency rules are important (don't emulate range features you don't really support) by showing a bad sort result with a linked list that pretends to be an array. Chapter 4: Integration talks about how to integrate with outside code, including calling C functions (including doing your own bindings and using implib on Windows), C++ interfaces, Windows API and Linux system calls in asm, C functions calling D, using COM, cross-language resource management (briefly) and I show some convenient scripting bindings using opDispatch with my script.d Chapter 5: Resource Management gives tips on avoiding the GC, writing your own reference counted objects, using owned pointers, and stuff like how not to use class destructors. Chapter 6: Wrapped Types goes into a bunch of struct features you can use to wrap other things. Includes a cute trick to make a gettext translation file in D alone, operator overloading, disabling default construction, etc. Chapter 7: Correctness Checking talks about bug catching. Includes an introduction to ddoc, static assert, throw vs assert, @safe, and more. Chapter 8: Reflection goes into compile time and runtime reflection including TypeInfo, __traits, is(), std.traits, and using module constructors to extend typeinfo. Culminates in an automatic function caller from the command line, showing how to get functions by name, convert strings to their arguments, and their return values back to strings, all generically with CT reflection. Chapter 9: Code Generation talks about user-defined literals (including showing a disassembly to you can prove it did what it was supposed to do), template value parameters, string mixins, domain-specific language converters (including a relatively traditional programming language and an ASCII art diagram conversion to a struct), and talks about doing more efficient generation with the right statements so the optimizer can do its magic. Chapter 10: Multitasking introduces you to threads, fibers, pipe process, and std.parallelism. I don't go too deeply into all this since I think the documentation and Andrei's book both did a good job and I didn't have a lot to add. (generally, I wanted my book to be a nice complement to Andrei's book and avoid repeating documentation, so it is genuinely something new that you might not have seen before. Though much of it is stuff I've talked about on the forums, stack overflow, or IRC, so it won't be all new if you've seen my posts over the last couple years.) Chapter 11: Kernel coding in D gets you started using D on bare metal x86; booting your PC to a D program without an operating system. Shows how to remove druntime then add back the minimal parts to get hello world to compile, how to easily compile and link the program so it can run without the OS (a simpler process can be used to make a minimal tiny binary that works on an OS btw, it would be like using D as C), then kinda dumps some code on you to get keyboard interrupt handling working. I didn't go into the details of how the hardware specific code works; I didn't explain what an interrupt table actually is or why its format is so weird, but I did give you the pieces to make it work and discuss the D features that are helpful in this environment (and some pitfalls) like naked asm functions. Chapter 12: Web and GUI programming shows how to get some fun stuff started with my misc github libraries including a dynamic website, a desktop graphics demo, some image file manipulation, an OpenGL window, and my dom.d for HTML parsing and manipulation. The main focus isn't so much how to use the libraries though, there's the [s]docs[/s] lol, the source and emailing me with questions for that. Instead, I
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 13:19:09 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Holy s**t, that is a lot! How did you manage to fit all this in 337 pages?! Each individual item tended to only be about 3 pages, some shorter, a few longer (I had a fair chunk to say about ranges and reflection, not so much to say about threads and phobos) and in some cases I kinda ask the reader to take things on faith. Mostly, I explain the faith stuff on the following page, but in the bare metal thing, like i said before, some of it is just that interacts with the hardware, trust me. So that chapter was only about 15 pages a lot for two recipes (hello world and handling interrupts), but certainly not a comprehensive covering of the subject. I gotta writing my dconf talk next though that will go a bit more into it, but again, with a focus on druntime functions more than on how the hardware actually works. I assume it has standard PACKT format (give it a go hero etc)? Bought it and waiting for a release :) Congratz! yeah, it starts with a list of steps, then usually shows code (not always a complete program but usually), then some talk about how it works and covering details. the code should also be available as a separate download for each thing so you can run it more easily and play with it that way.
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 13:12:01 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 12:40:48 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Any way to see the TOC? Hmm, not on the website yet but here it is. Each one is shown through examples (with a few exceptions where I couldn't think of a good example but wanted to discuss the principle behind it anyway): Chapter 1: Core Tasks, has a brief introduction to D then gets into using modules, libraries, immutability, classes, basic stuff to get you acquainted with the core language. BTW the book assumes you already know basic programming stuff, so I don't explain what variables are and stuff like that. Chapter 2: Phobos, goes over some phobos modules to show you the basic idea. Covers files and directories, socket clients and servers, zlib, random numbers, and a bit more. It isn't comprehensive, there's the documentation for that, but it covers a few important points you'll need to know throughout through representative examples. Chapter 3: Ranges goes over how to create a range, use a range (including something I had to ask the group: what is a generic input range?), transform ranges, and use some of the algorithms. Also goes into why the efficiency rules are important (don't emulate range features you don't really support) by showing a bad sort result with a linked list that pretends to be an array. Chapter 4: Integration talks about how to integrate with outside code, including calling C functions (including doing your own bindings and using implib on Windows), C++ interfaces, Windows API and Linux system calls in asm, C functions calling D, using COM, cross-language resource management (briefly) and I show some convenient scripting bindings using opDispatch with my script.d Chapter 5: Resource Management gives tips on avoiding the GC, writing your own reference counted objects, using owned pointers, and stuff like how not to use class destructors. Chapter 6: Wrapped Types goes into a bunch of struct features you can use to wrap other things. Includes a cute trick to make a gettext translation file in D alone, operator overloading, disabling default construction, etc. Chapter 7: Correctness Checking talks about bug catching. Includes an introduction to ddoc, static assert, throw vs assert, @safe, and more. Chapter 8: Reflection goes into compile time and runtime reflection including TypeInfo, __traits, is(), std.traits, and using module constructors to extend typeinfo. Culminates in an automatic function caller from the command line, showing how to get functions by name, convert strings to their arguments, and their return values back to strings, all generically with CT reflection. Chapter 9: Code Generation talks about user-defined literals (including showing a disassembly to you can prove it did what it was supposed to do), template value parameters, string mixins, domain-specific language converters (including a relatively traditional programming language and an ASCII art diagram conversion to a struct), and talks about doing more efficient generation with the right statements so the optimizer can do its magic. Chapter 10: Multitasking introduces you to threads, fibers, pipe process, and std.parallelism. I don't go too deeply into all this since I think the documentation and Andrei's book both did a good job and I didn't have a lot to add. (generally, I wanted my book to be a nice complement to Andrei's book and avoid repeating documentation, so it is genuinely something new that you might not have seen before. Though much of it is stuff I've talked about on the forums, stack overflow, or IRC, so it won't be all new if you've seen my posts over the last couple years.) Chapter 11: Kernel coding in D gets you started using D on bare metal x86; booting your PC to a D program without an operating system. Shows how to remove druntime then add back the minimal parts to get hello world to compile, how to easily compile and link the program so it can run without the OS (a simpler process can be used to make a minimal tiny binary that works on an OS btw, it would be like using D as C), then kinda dumps some code on you to get keyboard interrupt handling working. I didn't go into the details of how the hardware specific code works; I didn't explain what an interrupt table actually is or why its format is so weird, but I did give you the pieces to make it work and discuss the D features that are helpful in this environment (and some pitfalls) like naked asm functions. Chapter 12: Web and GUI programming shows how to get some fun stuff started with my misc github libraries including a dynamic website, a desktop graphics demo, some image file manipulation, an OpenGL window, and my dom.d for HTML parsing and manipulation. The main focus isn't so much how to use the libraries though, there's the [s]docs[/s] lol, the source and emailing me with questions for that. Instead, I
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 13:39:51 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 13:19:09 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Holy s**t, that is a lot! How did you manage to fit all this in 337 pages?! Each individual item tended to only be about 3 pages, some shorter, a few longer (I had a fair chunk to say about ranges and reflection, not so much to say about threads and phobos) and in some cases I kinda ask the reader to take things on faith. Mostly, I explain the faith stuff on the following page, but in the bare metal thing, like i said before, some of it is just that interacts with the hardware, trust me. So that chapter was only about 15 pages a lot for two recipes (hello world and handling interrupts), but certainly not a comprehensive covering of the subject. I gotta writing my dconf talk next though that will go a bit more into it, but again, with a focus on druntime functions more than on how the hardware actually works. I assume it has standard PACKT format (give it a go hero etc)? Bought it and waiting for a release :) Congratz! yeah, it starts with a list of steps, then usually shows code (not always a complete program but usually), then some talk about how it works and covering details. the code should also be available as a separate download for each thing so you can run it more easily and play with it that way. Everything sounds great, really can't wait. Coming from C++ I am really interested in resource management. I still can't find myself in non-deterministic d-tor / GC world (and recent discussion on removal of d-tors entirely isn't helping ;P).
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 15:28:01 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Everything sounds great, really can't wait. Coming from C++ I am really interested in resource management. I still can't find myself in non-deterministic d-tor / GC world (and recent discussion on removal of d-tors entirely isn't helping ;P). Actually, my main recommendation is to try not to worry about it and love the GC! When it works, it really is pretty nice, and I find it works well enough in most places to be really useful. But when it isn't right for you, then the other options come in and I showed some tricks to do it. Move semantics, for example, might not be obvious but is easy once you see the trick: disable the postblit and provide a release method. So that's the kind of stuff the chapter focuses on.
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On 3/3/14, 8:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as coming soon on the publisher's website: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book I just agreed with Packt to write a foreword for the book. -- Andrei
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On Monday, 5 May 2014 at 12:34:18 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: We're publishing in about two weeks now so it won't be long until the real thing is out anyway! Just preordered the ebook, waiting to read that :)
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On 5/6/2014 9:11 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 12:40:48 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Any way to see the TOC? Hmm, not on the website yet but here it is. [snip] Sounds awesome!
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On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 16:37:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as coming soon on the publisher's website: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book Congrats. Is there a early access option, like Manning Early Access Program, instead of just pre-order? Thanks Dan
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We're publishing in about two weeks now so it won't be long until the real thing is out anyway!
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BTW it now has a cover image, that's a painting my brother did called View from Phobos, seemed appropriate :P Wow! :)
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On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 23:03:54 UTC, Jason King wrote: Packt is having a 1/2 price ebooks sale, so if you haven't gotten this yet, now would be the time. I just did. Yes, I did it too.
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On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 16:37:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as coming soon on the publisher's website: Packt is having a 1/2 price ebooks sale, so if you haven't gotten this yet, now would be the time. I just did.
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Aye, and I just finished the first draft this week, now doing the second draft and it is moving along at an excellent pace, I'm pretty sure we're going to release earlier than expected on the website. BTW it now has a cover image, that's a painting my brother did called View from Phobos, seemed appropriate :P
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Iain Buclaw ibuc...@gdcproject.org wrote in message news:mailman.10.1394132086.25740.digitalmars-d-annou...@puremagic.com... On 6 March 2014 14:17, Dejan Lekic dejan.le...@gmail.com wrote: I've just pre-ordered it, on Amazon. ;) Hurry up! :) Cut the reviewers some lack! :) Some lack of speed ;-)
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I've just pre-ordered it, on Amazon. ;) Hurry up! :) -- http://dejan.lekic.org
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On Thursday, 6 March 2014 at 14:17:57 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: I've just pre-ordered it, on Amazon. ;) Hurry up! :) Me too, @Amazon UK! Looking foward.
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to bare metal code Do you mean low-level code like drivers?
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On Monday, March 03, 2014 16:37:48 Adam D. Ruppe wrote: As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as coming soon on the publisher's website: Oh no! Now, I'll have yet another programming book that I'll have trouble getting around to reading... ;) This is great news. Congrats! - Jonathan M Davis
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On Wednesday, 5 March 2014 at 13:06:48 UTC, Suliman wrote: Do you mean low-level code like drivers? Sort of. This chapter is one of the ones not yet written, but my plan is to show how to boot to a D program and interface (in a minimal way) with the keyboard (requires an interrupt handler) and screen (which is memory-mapped). A lot of drivers use those same principles, so the stuff could apply there too, but for a real situation you'll need to use more care than I intend to take. BTW I'll probably be talking about these things the the dconf too.
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On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 18:39:34 UTC, bearophile wrote: Adam D. Ruppe: My goal is to act as a nice complement to Andrei's book, not to repeat it, so while I do cover a lot of language features, I try to do them in the context of bigger picture tasks. So hopefully, the books can go together and reinforce each other. Congratulations Adam :-) Now among the printed books about D there's Andrei book, the book about Tango, and your one. Plus there's Ali Çehreli online book, and probably more. Compared to other new languages like Scala there are far less books about D, but the situation is improving :-) Bye, bearophile I believe there is a Japanese book for ~0.110 http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DevelopmentWithD#OtherLanguagesnon-English But the link is dead and I really couldn't/can't confirm that the book was print.
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On 3/3/14, 8:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as coming soon on the publisher's website: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book Announced: https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/10202073362529100?stream_ref=10 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1zjt9y/d_cookbook_available_for_preordering_from_packt/ I get internal server error from Twitter. Andrei
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On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 18:39:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Announced: Ah, cool, I almost forgot! BTW my brain is currently on something that might be of interest: I'm writing a little float to string function. Phobos currently uses sprintf which can't be run at compile time and isn't pure/@safe, so my new D implementation if I get it right on all the cases, it is close now tho... might be a nice replacement there.
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On 3/4/14, 10:39 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/3/14, 8:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as coming soon on the publisher's website: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book Announced: https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/10202073362529100?stream_ref=10 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1zjt9y/d_cookbook_available_for_preordering_from_packt/ I get internal server error from Twitter. The Net is definitely in a bad mood today. My reddit submission shows 1 comment but there's no comment to see. It also appear in new submissions but not in hot submissions. Andrei
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On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 18:58:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The Net is definitely in a bad mood today. My reddit submission shows 1 comment but there's no comment to see. It also appear in new submissions but not in hot submissions. I don't see it in http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/new/ .
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On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 18:56:50 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: It's a much harder problem than one might anticipate. Indeed, I started it last night figuring I could slap something together in 30 minutes to do the job... now I've spent over three hours on it and it still isn't quite right. It almost works (including in CTFE) but rounds some numbers incorrectly (very large and very small especially). The guys on IRC said to look up the Burger algorithm and do it right, but I kinda wanna just finish it all by myself then maybe take a look at the prior art to see how wrong I was :)
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On 2014-03-04 19:14:13 +, Vladimir Panteleev said: On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 18:58:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The Net is definitely in a bad mood today. My reddit submission shows 1 comment but there's no comment to see. It also appear in new submissions but not in hot submissions. I don't see it in http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/new/ . Probably was filtered by some algorithm. Contact moderators.
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On 3/4/2014 10:57 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: It's a much harder problem than one might anticipate. It might work better for CTFE to notice that the floating point formatting function is being called, and instead of interpreting that function, do its own workalike. Certainly that'd be a heluva lot faster. A bugzilla issue for this would be apropos.
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On 3/4/2014 12:46 PM, Max Klyga wrote: On 2014-03-04 19:14:13 +, Vladimir Panteleev said: On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 18:58:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The Net is definitely in a bad mood today. My reddit submission shows 1 comment but there's no comment to see. It also appear in new submissions but not in hot submissions. I don't see it in http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/new/ . Probably was filtered by some algorithm. Contact moderators. yah, looks like that happened.
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On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 22:29:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: 3 hours? Try a week or two. Yeah, I believe it now. Got close with my int version (shifting the fractional portion by the exponent... works great until it overflows adding up the bits). Tried a version with floating point math (cast to int, print that, append . to the string, raise the other to some power of ten, cast to int, call it done) and even that didn't actually work right - the leading zeroes or high exponents weren't right. Haven't even tried parsing them yet! Yikes. I hate to admit defeat, but this has blown my time budget to pieces. Time to give it up. :(
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On 3/4/14, 2:35 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/4/2014 12:46 PM, Max Klyga wrote: On 2014-03-04 19:14:13 +, Vladimir Panteleev said: On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 18:58:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The Net is definitely in a bad mood today. My reddit submission shows 1 comment but there's no comment to see. It also appear in new submissions but not in hot submissions. I don't see it in http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/new/ . Probably was filtered by some algorithm. Contact moderators. yah, looks like that happened. Messaged a moderator. The post has been approved. However the timing is crappy so essentially the opportunity for a broad reach has been wasted. BTW this is not something that only I can do. Anyone can politely message the moderators and ask what happened. Had that happened earlier (I've had a million meetings today), the impact of the post might have been much higher. Let me reiterate: there's a lot of good talk about helping D out. Concurrently there are many simple, absolutely trivial tasks that are very easy for anyone to do but add to a lot of overhead if they all fall on the same person. Case in point, I asked for the photos of the keynote speakers on the homepage. This is a good idea because e.g. Scott's mugshot is instant credibility and a good selling points. Nobody found it worth their while to do that, so I ended up doing it myself, too. It would be awesome if there was more attention (thanks eco for the dconf.org pull request!) paid to all things that we can crowdsource. Thanks, Andrei
My D book is now officially coming soon
As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as coming soon on the publisher's website: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book I was hoping to have it finished in time for the D conference, but the publisher thought that was too soon to be realistic and it is looking like they are right... right now we believe it will be available in the summer. Anyway, the topics I talk about include: * Phobos, including Ranges * Testing (both static and run time), documentation, and error handling * Reflection and code generation * All kinds of fun with structs * Integration with other languages and environments * Using some third party libraries and some more. My goal is to act as a nice complement to Andrei's book, not to repeat it, so while I do cover a lot of language features, I try to do them in the context of bigger picture tasks. So hopefully, the books can go together and reinforce each other.
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On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 16:37:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as coming soon on the publisher's website: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book I was hoping to have it finished in time for the D conference, but the publisher thought that was too soon to be realistic and it is looking like they are right... right now we believe it will be available in the summer. Anyway, the topics I talk about include: * Phobos, including Ranges * Testing (both static and run time), documentation, and error handling * Reflection and code generation * All kinds of fun with structs * Integration with other languages and environments * Using some third party libraries and some more. My goal is to act as a nice complement to Andrei's book, not to repeat it, so while I do cover a lot of language features, I try to do them in the context of bigger picture tasks. So hopefully, the books can go together and reinforce each other. Looking forward to reading it!
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On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 16:37:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as coming soon on the publisher's website: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book I was hoping to have it finished in time for the D conference, but the publisher thought that was too soon to be realistic and it is looking like they are right... right now we believe it will be available in the summer. Preordered.
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On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 16:37:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as coming soon on the publisher's website: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book I was hoping to have it finished in time for the D conference, but the publisher thought that was too soon to be realistic and it is looking like they are right... right now we believe it will be available in the summer. Anyway, the topics I talk about include: * Phobos, including Ranges * Testing (both static and run time), documentation, and error handling * Reflection and code generation * All kinds of fun with structs * Integration with other languages and environments * Using some third party libraries and some more. My goal is to act as a nice complement to Andrei's book, not to repeat it, so while I do cover a lot of language features, I try to do them in the context of bigger picture tasks. So hopefully, the books can go together and reinforce each other. Will the book also be available on Amazon?
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On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 17:06:36 UTC, Meta wrote: Will the book also be available on Amazon? Yes, closer to the release date.
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On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 17:11:59 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 17:06:36 UTC, Meta wrote: Will the book also be available on Amazon? Yes, closer to the release date. Great, I'm excited to read it.
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On 3/3/2014 8:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as coming soon on the publisher's website: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book Congratulations! This is a great contribution to D. I was hoping to have it finished in time for the D conference, but the publisher thought that was too soon to be realistic and it is looking like they are right... Dang, we could have set up a table for your book.
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On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 16:37:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as coming soon on the publisher's website: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book This is a really good news !
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On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 16:37:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as coming soon on the publisher's website: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book I was hoping to have it finished in time for the D conference, but the publisher thought that was too soon to be realistic and it is looking like they are right... right now we believe it will be available in the summer. Anyway, the topics I talk about include: * Phobos, including Ranges * Testing (both static and run time), documentation, and error handling * Reflection and code generation * All kinds of fun with structs * Integration with other languages and environments * Using some third party libraries and some more. My goal is to act as a nice complement to Andrei's book, not to repeat it, so while I do cover a lot of language features, I try to do them in the context of bigger picture tasks. So hopefully, the books can go together and reinforce each other. Congratulations. I certainly intend to buy a copy.
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 16:37:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as coming soon on the publisher's website: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book I was hoping to have it finished in time for the D conference, but the publisher thought that was too soon to be realistic and it is looking like they are right... right now we believe it will be available in the summer. Anyway, the topics I talk about include: * Phobos, including Ranges * Testing (both static and run time), documentation, and error handling * Reflection and code generation * All kinds of fun with structs * Integration with other languages and environments * Using some third party libraries and some more. My goal is to act as a nice complement to Andrei's book, not to repeat it, so while I do cover a lot of language features, I try to do them in the context of bigger picture tasks. So hopefully, the books can go together and reinforce each other. Looks great. I understand the effort and dedication of writing a technical book, it's not a small thing. I'll definitely be buying a copy when released. In fact i can't wait. :)
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On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 16:37:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as coming soon on the publisher's website: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book I see there's a sample chapters tab, which is empty right now. Can we expect some preview chapter coming out soonish, too?
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Adam D. Ruppe: My goal is to act as a nice complement to Andrei's book, not to repeat it, so while I do cover a lot of language features, I try to do them in the context of bigger picture tasks. So hopefully, the books can go together and reinforce each other. Congratulations Adam :-) Now among the printed books about D there's Andrei book, the book about Tango, and your one. Plus there's Ali Çehreli online book, and probably more. Compared to other new languages like Scala there are far less books about D, but the situation is improving :-) Bye, bearophile
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Damn, soon I will need to actually think before choosing what book to recommend to newbies! :)
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On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 11:37:48 -0500, Adam D. Ruppe destructiona...@gmail.com wrote: As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as coming soon on the publisher's website: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book Nice! I find what you write here always clear and bringing very interesting stuff along. Your posts here are always insightful, I'm really looking forward to reading this * Phobos, including Ranges * Testing (both static and run time), documentation, and error handling * Reflection and code generation * All kinds of fun with structs * Integration with other languages and environments * Using some third party libraries Nice choice of subjects! Good luck to finish it, it's always a very tiring endeavour.
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On 3/3/14, 8:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as coming soon on the publisher's website: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book Let's share this on reddit tomorrow at 9 AM PST. Thanks! Andrei
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On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 22:36:29 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 03/03/2014 09:24 AM, Walter Bright wrote: I was hoping to have it finished in time for the D conference, but the publisher thought that was too soon to be realistic and it is looking like they are right... Dang, we could have set up a table for your book. He should bring early copies to the conference! Please, please, please... (-- I've already earned mine. :p ) +1 Ali
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On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 16:37:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as coming soon on the publisher's website: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book Congratulations! Looking forward to getting my hands on it.
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On 3/3/2014 11:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as coming soon on the publisher's website: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book Sounds awesome, congrats!
Re: My D book is now officially coming soon
On 03/03/2014 11:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as coming soon on the publisher's website: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book I was hoping to have it finished in time for the D conference, but the publisher thought that was too soon to be realistic and it is looking like they are right... right now we believe it will be available in the summer. Congratulations! I will buy it as soon as it's available.
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I'm excited to check it out! +1 preorder
