On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 18:37:07 UTC, Martin Drašar wrote:
Dne 23.1.2015 v 19:16 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
napsal(a):
Both are nice:
http://tour.golang.org/welcome/1
http://rustbyexample.com/
Or something along the lines of https://tryhaskell.org
With possible integration
On Saturday, 24 January 2015 at 18:59:52 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 06:51:08PM +, Zach the Mystic via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 21:56:59 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 09:20:10PM +, Zach the Mystic via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 1/25/15 4:42 AM, Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Here's another one:
The search box allows selecting between:
- Entire D Site
- Library reference
- Newsgroup archives
But where's the Language spec option?
It's missing due to how dlang.org is set up, and the limitations of
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 09:48:34AM -0700, David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 1/25/15 4:42 AM, Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Here's another one:
The search box allows selecting between:
- Entire D Site
- Library reference
- Newsgroup archives
But where's the Language
On 1/23/15, aldanor via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d@puremagic.com wrote:
In continuing the series of rant posts about the website, this
one will be about the documentation.
Excellent points. In fact this kind of feedback is exactly what we
need, to learn what it's like for someone new who just
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 06:51:08PM +, Zach the Mystic via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 21:56:59 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 09:20:10PM +, Zach the Mystic via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
I have a basic suggestion on how to get started. Create a
On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 21:56:59 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 09:20:10PM +, Zach the Mystic via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
I have a basic suggestion on how to get started. Create a
Learning D
button and put it on the menu at left on the front page. On
the page
it
On Saturday, 24 January 2015 at 18:59:52 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 06:51:08PM +, Zach the Mystic via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
Consider me destroyed! I mean to get started with it, but
it'll take a
week or so.
A week is a short time as far as D pull requests go. :-P
On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 17:19:44 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
OTOH, do I hear the cry of a volunteer? ;-) (I'm only
half-joking...
the thing is, if nobody steps up to write said tutorial, it
isn't gonna
materialize. The rest of us are already busy enough with
whatever it is
we're
On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 17:03:17 UTC, aldanor wrote:
Since we are the ones who generate the docs, we can totally do
this (in a simplest way, bake in the markers into the ddoc and
generate a javascript hashmap to trace back to them).
I turns out that's exactly how it's done on the rust
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 05:34:28PM +, aldanor via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 17:19:44 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
OTOH, do I hear the cry of a volunteer? ;-) (I'm only half-joking...
the thing is, if nobody steps up to write said tutorial, it isn't
gonna materialize.
On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 18:17:30 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Well, to be fair, the reason Ali's book is so detailed is
because it's
geared towards the newbie programmer who is learning how to
program,
possibly for the first time. So the pacing isn't really suited
for an
experienced programmer
In continuing the series of rant posts about the website, this
one will be about the documentation. This is a big one and no
fixing css or pretty menus can amend this.
I've recently started learning Rust myself (a few weeks ago) and
despite the alpha state of both rustc and rust-lang.org
On 1/23/15 9:03 AM, aldanor wrote:
[NB] SUGGESTION: initiate work on an Official Guide and keep it up to
date with the latest language features.
That would be fantastic, and something that might be parallelizable as
well. Here's a related thought: I wonder what it would take to put
together
On 1/23/15 10:09 AM, aldanor wrote:
On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 18:00:13 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 1/23/15 9:03 AM, aldanor wrote:
[NB] SUGGESTION: initiate work on an Official Guide and keep it up to
date with the latest language features.
That would be fantastic, and something
Dne 23.1.2015 v 19:16 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d napsal(a):
Both are nice:
http://tour.golang.org/welcome/1
http://rustbyexample.com/
Or something along the lines of https://tryhaskell.org
With possible integration with D REPL.
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On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 05:03:15PM +, aldanor via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
I personally see learning and documentation as two different
classes of information. Learning resources might include tutorials,
code examples, articles, books, whereas documentation would be a place
for more
On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 18:00:13 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 1/23/15 9:03 AM, aldanor wrote:
[NB] SUGGESTION: initiate work on an Official Guide and keep
it up to
date with the latest language features.
That would be fantastic, and something that might be
parallelizable as
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 06:30:04PM +, aldanor via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 18:17:30 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
[...]
I vote for ddoc / static generation. The site itself is static
anyway, using client-side JS to do this seems to be overkill.
You need both. What I
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 09:20:10PM +, Zach the Mystic via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
[...]
I have a basic suggestion on how to get started. Create a Learning D
button and put it on the menu at left on the front page. On the page
it links to, start by researching and listing every existing
On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 17:03:17 UTC, aldanor wrote:
1) D Learning
This is the most problematic part. It's not even obvious where
to start.
Say I just landed on dlang.org via a google search and I want
to find a quick user guide. I click D Reference (that seems the
closest one to
On 1/23/15 9:03 AM, aldanor wrote:
In continuing the series of rant posts about the website, this one will
be about the documentation. This is a big one and no fixing css or
pretty menus can amend this.
[snip]
These insights are solid, sorry for not explicitly stating my position
earlier.
On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 17:03:17 UTC, aldanor wrote:
On the bright side, D has a book. Or rather, it has THE book
and a few more books, some of which are free and some are not.
However, I wouldn't ever start to read a 500-page manuscript
just in order to get acquainted with the language
After spending hours and hours in a breadth-first scan to learn
me a D, I agree completely with the suggestions in this thread
and I'm happy to help implement them.
Caveats: I'm just now coming up to speed on D and I'm an
engineer, not a tech writer.
I think the biggest needs are:
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