Beginner ?. Why does D suggest to learn java

[Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 16 October 2014 at 22:26:51 UTC, RBfromME wrote:
> I'm a newbie to programming and have been looking into the D 
> lang as a general purposing language to learn, yet the D 
> overview indicates that java would be a better language to 
> learn for your first programming language. Why?  Looks like D 
> is easier than Java...

The answer is that teaching material for a very beginner is 
limited at the time of that writing we didn't have Ali's book.

http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/

Feel free to give it a try and let the community know things you 
struggled with.