On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 18:36:19 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 18:32:59 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh
wrote:
On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 18:25:48 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:13:45 +0200, ProgrammingGhost wrote:
What is the fastest way for me to learn D? I think what I
want is a
syntax reference manual and a good tutorial to learn how to
find and use
libs.
I learned D by doing two things.
1) Downloading the bundled DMD in a ZIP file.
2) Reading the language reference at http://www.dlang.org
(back then it
was on DigitalMars website...)
That is all you really need.
Now I would suggest reading the D Wiki as well. ;)
You really learned D from the online language reference?
Thats hard core! You must be much smarter than me.
I suggested reading the Phobos docs online, but I was just
joking.
I did too. I don't see it as particularly
hard/only-for-smart-people, I just built simple programs and
slowly looked up what I needed as I went along. A lot of help
from people here and on IRC helped as well of course.
There is a lot of good information in the language reference, but
I just remember it didn't feel very welcoming to someone new to
the language. It does show how to use the different parts, but it
is sort of hard to figure out what a proper D progam should look
like from all that. But as Dicebot pointed out, it wasn't all
that long ago that there were not many other options.
