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

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On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 02:41:16 UTC, Shriramana Sharma 
via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Mayuresh Kathe via
> Digitalmars-d-learn <digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> Okay, if that is the case, I'll dive into Mr. Alexandrescu's 
>> book as soon as
>> I get my copy.
>> BTW, how come all of you address him as Andrei?
>
> Heh -- possibly you haven't interacted on international 
> technical
> mailing lists like this. For us (you and me) in India we are 
> used to
> employ/expect such honorifics, and in fact it would be 
> considered
> somewhat disrespectful if we didn't, but in my early days 
> interacting
> with people from "western" countries on the net, I was actually
> discouraged from using "Mr" because it made people feel "old"! 
> :-)
>
> FWIW while we're talking honorifics, he's *Dr* Alexandrescu as 
> in Ph D
> doc. :-) [I'm one too, but you won't find me having mentioned it
> anywhere earlier! :-) That's informal.]
>
> Re Andrei's book versus Ali's, the latter is a more starting 
> from the
> basics approach whereas Andrei's book is more targeted at people
> coming from other languages. (This is a judgment I read 
> somewhere --
> perhaps on this forum? -- and which I agree with, sorta.)

yes, you are totally right. Ali's book is aiming at teaching D 
language to complete beginners where Andrei's book is aiming at 
teaching D language to people who are already programmers.