On Tuesday, 31 January 2012 at 05:31:47 UTC, Xinok wrote:
Just a thought, but I think the official website really needs a Getting Started page for newcomers. This page should make it as effortless as possible by providing all the information and resources needed for one to dive right into D. Not everything needs to be covered by this page, but it should provide links as necessary.
Hmmm, I would also think having a section of tutorials that steps you through the process, perhaps as a video on youtube? Course the tutorials I'm thinking is taking something and either converting C++ code, or making something original and then expanding it and the thought process on how to improve the code, adding generics and templates, writing a mixing function one step at a time. Adding a unittest to prove it works.
Perhaps I'm thinking more of a walk-through lecture, since I don't want so much a wall of text as someone actually talking to me.
It could do that for almost everything, explaining how a delegate would be useful and why it works, and a few good portions on text and string manipulation for unicode.
So far the best examples on coding and whatnot were from a stanford university lecture and an introduction to the [b]STL[/b] from microsoft.
Hmmm I also think perhaps adding a easy pdf download of the library reference you could print off; I find it increasingly annoying to switch back and forth on the html when I wouldn't mind having it in a paper form. But perhaps that's just me....
