Learning D Available for Pre-Order

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce]

The project that has taken me away from Derelict since the end of 
February is now available for pre-order at [1]. I'm currently 
about 60% through the preliminary draft stage and, given that 
I've recently acquired a significant amount of free time in my 
schedule, expect to accelerate my pace on the remaining 40%. I 
need as much time as I can make for the revisions!

I want to emphasize that "Learning D" is not aiming at those 
completely new to programming. The target reader is someone with 
some experience in a C family language. I see it as sitting 
somewhere between Ali's book and TDPL. One of my overarching 
goals is to help the target reader avoid some of the common 
mistakes people make when applying C++ or Java idioms to D.

So far in the course of writing this book, I've learned that I 
knew less about the fundamentals of D than I thought I did and 
that the more difficult parts of the language aren't so 
difficult. The tech reviewers have given excellent feedback and 
done a fine job of correcting my misconceptions & mistakes. I 
don't know how they feel about being named publicly just yet, but 
they all have my sincerest thanks. I know how tiring and 
time-consuming it can be to do that sort of thing, as reviewing 
the English in the papers of Korean doctoral candidates, 
professors and businessmen is something I do on the side.

Once it's all done, I'm going to blog a postmortem about the 
whole process. It's been very, very different from my experience 
with "Learn to Tango with D". Not a bad experience at all, just 
more intense and time-consuming than I had anticipated.

[1] https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/learning-d