Learning With D

2011-05-22 Thread Jesse Phillips
Hello, I am making this announcement since there is an article contest and this might fit into that. I started writing what I hoped would turn into a fairly complete book. I am releasing the current content under the creative commons license. If this is reasonable for submission in the contest

Re: Learning With D

2011-05-22 Thread bearophile
Jesse Phillips: We all know D would make a very good first language, and I want to provide some material that makes this possible. This is a very interesting experiment, thank you for writing it. Regarding languages to be used as first language for adults or near-adults, I think there is no

Re: Learning With D

2011-05-22 Thread Ali Çehreli
On 05/21/2011 11:12 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote: I started writing what I hoped would turn into a fairly complete book. Thank you for doing this! :) This book is intended to teach programming from the ground up. I have some experience in doing the same. Just like teaching in the classroom,

Re: Learning With D

2011-05-22 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 23.05.2011 01:29, schrieb Ali Çehreli: On 05/21/2011 11:12 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote: I started writing what I hoped would turn into a fairly complete book. Thank you for doing this! :) This book is intended to teach programming from the ground up. I have some experience in doing

Re: Learning With D

2011-05-22 Thread Emil Madsen
On 22 May 2011 22:26, bearophile bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: Jesse Phillips: We all know D would make a very good first language, and I want to provide some material that makes this possible. This is a very interesting experiment, thank you for writing it. Regarding languages to be

Re: Learning With D

2011-05-22 Thread Ali Çehreli
On 05/22/2011 04:36 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote: And I think http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i49_SNt4yfk is a great video explaining pointers ;) Yes, funny. :) But as some of the comments show, there are bad practices like not initializing the pointers. I wonder whether the person who wrote the