How to continue after the book?

[JamesD via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 at 06:39:17 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 at 05:53:22 UTC, I Lindström wrote:
>> Thanks all. Your answers gave me a lot more confidence in 
>> starting. What I've always found to be the hardest is to know 
>> what you can do, and that's what I use books for. "Can" in the 
>> sense of what's possible and how. These forums and the docs on 
>> the site have given me a pretty decent idea about how to 
>> proceed and do things. It's not the work itself that I dread, 
>> but more the "can I find out how to do something", but some of 
>> your answers touched on this and I will take heed.
>>
>> A lot to learn. You can expect me to come pester you guys if I 
>> hit a snag. Heh.
>
> plus IRC chat if you get stuck.

All great tips above!

I have some rather simple examples here:
https://github.com/jasc2v8/dwt-support

I had created a vhd copy program in AutoIt, and set a goal to 
convert to D.

The result is a much better utility, as well as learning the D 
language from the very basics to a useful gui app.