UPB D Summer School

[Eduard Staniloiu]

On Wednesday, 17 July 2019 at 16:36:56 UTC, M.M. wrote:
> On Wednesday, 17 July 2019 at 13:56:38 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Edi and myself are glad to announce that the first edition of 
>> the D Summer School that we organized for the students at the 
>> University Politehnica of Bucharest has just ended.
>>
>> [...]
>
> Really nice! I actually think that D could be a nice language 
> to be used for teaching programming.

We also believe this and we hope that, sometime in the (near) 
future, we'll be able to introduce it in one of the 1st year 
courses

> I guess you had the summer school as an advanced topic?

We had the summer school as an extracurricular course, after the 
summer finals.
Our target audience was represented by, but not restricted to, 
3rd year students that have prior experience with OOP languages 
(C++, Java, Python, etc.).

We structured the sessions such that we'll cover as much of what 
D has to offer, starting from basic types and all the way to 
advanced meta-programming.

 From what we've observed, D has the key strength that even 
complex things such as template constraints and introspection are 
easy to grasp by a newcomer.

Edi