On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 at 14:47:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
The project that has taken me away from Derelict since the end
of February is now available for pre-order at [1]. I'm
currently about 60% through the preliminary draft stage and,
given that I've recently acquired a significant amount of free
time in my schedule, expect to accelerate my pace on the
remaining 40%. I need as much time as I can make for the
revisions!
I want to emphasize that "Learning D" is not aiming at those
completely new to programming. The target reader is someone
with some experience in a C family language. I see it as
sitting somewhere between Ali's book and TDPL. One of my
overarching goals is to help the target reader avoid some of
the common mistakes people make when applying C++ or Java
idioms to D.
So far in the course of writing this book, I've learned that I
knew less about the fundamentals of D than I thought I did and
that the more difficult parts of the language aren't so
difficult. The tech reviewers have given excellent feedback and
done a fine job of correcting my misconceptions & mistakes. I
don't know how they feel about being named publicly just yet,
but they all have my sincerest thanks. I know how tiring and
time-consuming it can be to do that sort of thing, as reviewing
the English in the papers of Korean doctoral candidates,
professors and businessmen is something I do on the side.
Once it's all done, I'm going to blog a postmortem about the
whole process. It's been very, very different from my
experience with "Learn to Tango with D". Not a bad experience
at all, just more intense and time-consuming than I had
anticipated.
[1] https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/learning-d
What's the cover all about? Autumn for C++, or was it just that
the colors matched nicely :-)