Re: Fastest way to learn D?

2013-10-15 Thread Chris
On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 20:31:54 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 20:25:06 UTC, Chris wrote: 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

Re: Fastest way to learn D?

2013-10-15 Thread John Colvin
On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 20:25:06 UTC, Chris wrote: 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, Pro

Re: Fastest way to learn D?

2013-10-15 Thread Chris
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 lea

Re: Fastest way to learn D?

2013-10-15 Thread deadalnix
On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 18:13:46 UTC, 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. Ali's book is especially targeted at beginners : http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/i

Re: Fastest way to learn D?

2013-10-15 Thread Robert BuRnEr Schadek
On 10/15/2013 08:13 PM, 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 would suggest to write a compiler for D in D. Helped me alot, but I still learning new stuff. M

Re: Fastest way to learn D?

2013-10-15 Thread Wyatt
On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 18:29:21 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: The is also an under construction tutorial: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/d-tut-0.1/index.html which looks promising, but is far from complete. As an addendum, this one is a neat example of how things can come together in real co

Re: Fastest way to learn D?

2013-10-15 Thread Craig Dillabaugh
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 lea

Re: Fastest way to learn D?

2013-10-15 Thread Dicebot
On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 18:32:59 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: You really learned D from the online language reference? Thats hard core! You must be much smarter than me. You know, good old times when it was the only information available about D2, before even TDPL came out.. We litera

Re: Fastest way to learn D?

2013-10-15 Thread Dejan Lekic
> > 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. Well, that was ~10 years ago... Language reference is still pretty much okay, with more examples, plus we al

Re: Fastest way to learn D?

2013-10-15 Thread John Colvin
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 goo

Re: Fastest way to learn D?

2013-10-15 Thread Craig Dillabaugh
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

Re: Fastest way to learn D?

2013-10-15 Thread Brian Schott
On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 18:25:48 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: 2) Reading the language reference at http://www.dlang.org (back then it was on DigitalMars website...) If you want a more accurate version of the language grammar, take a look at this: https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DGrammar/bl

Re: Fastest way to learn D?

2013-10-15 Thread Craig Dillabaugh
On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 18:13:46 UTC, 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. The best way to learn D is to start by reading the API and code examples in

Re: Fastest way to learn D?

2013-10-15 Thread Dejan Lekic
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)

Fastest way to learn D?

2013-10-15 Thread ProgrammingGhost
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.