Adam D. Ruppe's "D Cookbook" now available!

[Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 30 May 2014 at 13:25:28 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Friday, 30 May 2014 at 11:25:45 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> If you already know D, you don't need to read it 
>> cover-to-cover. Just read the sexy bits :)
>
> Yea, I also tried to keep the dependencies on previous content 
> to a minimum or at the least, explicit to make jumping around 
> that much easier.
>
> That said though, after the first few pages, I tried to say 
> things that are at least interesting to the target 
> intermediate+ audience; like page one talks about installing 
> dmd, boring, but by page 4 I tried to answer a FAQ about 
> modules and also worked my agenda to clear up the directory 
> structure common misconception "Modules have logical names that 
> do not need to match the filename." which is something you can 
> get work done without knowing; it might be new even to someone 
> who has used D before and understanding this can make sense of 
> a number of compile/link errors that come up.
>
> So, while I feel chapters one and two are the weakest links 
> (and I definitely dropped the ball on editing the code on 
> chapter one), hopefully none of the stuff is outright useless 
> even if you've seen it before and have read the website 
> documentation.

Yep. I read bits of Chapter 1 and learned things I didn't know 
yet. No matter how much you know, something always escapes you. 
I've learned tricks even from bad musicians (like the AK 47 
thing).