Learning D for a non computer science background person : pre-requisite knowledge?

[Mayuresh Kathe via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 17:33:18 UTC, Gary Willoughby 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 17:15:28 UTC, Mayuresh Kathe 
> wrote:
>> Okay, if that is the case, I'll dive into Mr. Alexandrescu's 
>> book as soon as I get my copy.
>
> No need to wait that long. I second H.S. Teoh's suggestion to 
> recommend reading this book too:
>
> http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/intro.html
>
> It's free, downloadable and right up to date.

Yes, prima-facie it definitely looks good.
Will start off with it while I await delivery of Andrei's book to 
my location.