On Thursday, 16 October 2014 at 22:26:51 UTC, RBfromME wrote:
I'm a newbie to programming and have been looking into the D lang as a general purposing language to learn, yet the D overview indicates that java would be a better language to learn for your first programming language. Why? Looks like D is easier than Java...
Thank you for taking the time to respond to my inquiry. I've been reading up on different languages for some time now. I have experimented with python some and have created a few minor scripts. It's fairly easy to get going with the basics , but i don't find the basics any easier to learn than D's. The biggest issue i personal find in getting deeper into a language is the docs and examples. The python examples, beyond the basics usually get write into OO so you find your self trying to figure out OO while trying to sift through the examples. Makes it a little harder to get going and figure out the available libraries while trying to figure OO at the same time. The second thing that would help a beginner move forward is the documentation on the libraries. I see D has standard libraries along with third parties. And I believe , if i read it properly, D can us C libraries. It would be helpful to see examples on how to use C libs with D since D is still new and its library packages is still small. Summing it up, I personally think the hardest part in learning to use a specific language is the docs and and examples because they all throw you write into OO and you spend more time trying to figure out OO instead of how to use the standard lib or third party lib to get a basic task done.
Thank you Ali Cehreli for taking the time to write the D tutorial. It's appreciated by people like me.
