On Monday, 26 August 2019 at 06:46:04 UTC, GreatSam4sure wrote:
What is the path of becoming very good at programming? Which
language will one start with.
Often it's the language that best solves the problem at hand for
you, but it really depends on what you want to achieve. For fast
scripting and modelling maybe Python would be a good choice. But
Python can be a dead end when it comes to performance etc. If you
want to develop apps for Android/iOS you're better off using Java
or better still Kotlin (Android) and Swift (iOS). You should
always decouple the business logic of your app from the UI. So
you can write code in C/C++ or D and later link it to any UI.
Anyway, always think of where you want to go, e.g. portability /
cross-platform and see what best suits you. If you wanna go
mobile use a language that runs on mobile platforms like Android
and iOS. If you want to write for desktop or server only you have
more choices. Unfortunately, Android/iOS support for D leaves
much to be desired.
I have some real-world situation I want to model but I am at a
loss as to how to start. For instance, I do one build a GUI
framework like adobe spark, javafx,etc with minimum dependency
or no dependency from the ground up.
The lack of easily customizable, platform native GUI in D is a
real concern to me but I don't have the expertise to do it.
There is DlangUI: https://github.com/buggins/dlangui Check it
out. And there are D bindings to other UI frameworks.
Where is the starting point of doing such amazing thing?
The truth of the matter is that you only know after years of
programming what you need and what you don't need. As you get
wiser you become less excited about the latest fancy feature of
language X. Basically all languages have similar core features to
model the world and solve problems (hash maps, arrays, structs,
classes etc.) Just start to write programs that solve problems
and enjoy...
Thanks for your reply
