Online D course on coursera/udacity/etc?

2013-03-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Hello, Online courses are becoming quite popular. A D course on one of the up-and-coming online course sites would be great. If anyone would want to do such a course (e.g. derived from TDPL), chime in here with ideas. Thanks, Andrei

Re: Online D course on coursera/udacity/etc?

2013-03-19 Thread Samuel Lampa
On 03/19/2013 02:52 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Online courses are becoming quite popular. A D course on one of the up-and-coming online course sites would be great. If anyone would want to do such a course (e.g. derived from TDPL), chime in here with ideas. Ah, Yes, would be really useful

Re: Online D course on coursera/udacity/etc?

2013-03-19 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:52:42 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, Online courses are becoming quite popular. A D course on one of the up-and-coming online course sites would be great. If anyone would want to do such a course (e.g. derived from TDPL), chime in here with ideas. Tha

Re: Online D course on coursera/udacity/etc?

2013-03-19 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:15:02PM -0700, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:52:42 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu > wrote: [...] > >Online courses are becoming quite popular. A D course on one of > >the up-and-coming online course sites would be great. If anyone > >would want to do such a cou

Re: Online D course on coursera/udacity/etc?

2013-03-19 Thread Adam Wilson
On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:40:55 -0700, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:15:02PM -0700, Adam Wilson wrote: On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:52:42 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [...] >Online courses are becoming quite popular. A D course on one of >the up-and-coming online course sites w

Re: Online D course on coursera/udacity/etc?

2013-03-20 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-03-19 20:40, H. S. Teoh wrote: I agree that doing a full-scale online video course for D is probably not a good idea at the moment. However, that does not preclude having a text-based course, which is much easier to produce and keep up-to-date. Although video is nice to have, I don't se

Re: Online D course on coursera/udacity/etc?

2013-03-20 Thread Chris Cain
The format that I found the most powerful to learn a new language or concept goes like this: 1. Gather a set of problems 2. Introduce a few new concepts while considering the effect of those concepts on your problems 3. Use new concepts to solve that set of problems 4. Iteratively improve the

Re: Online D course on coursera/udacity/etc?

2013-03-20 Thread Alan
On Tuesday, 19 March 2013 at 01:52:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, Online courses are becoming quite popular. A D course on one of the up-and-coming online course sites would be great. If anyone would want to do such a course (e.g. derived from TDPL), chime in here with ideas. T

Re: Online D course on coursera/udacity/etc?

2013-03-21 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-03-21 02:52, Alan wrote: I really wanted to use GtkD for example (I know it is an extension for the language, not part of it), but the only tutorials I could find with good examples were for C, C++, C#, Python, etc. For someone like me who does not have much experience writing a GUI, lea