books for learning D

bachmeier no at spam.net
Mon Jan 13 11:35:51 UTC 2020


On Monday, 13 January 2020 at 11:20:31 UTC, mark wrote:
> On Monday, 13 January 2020 at 11:13:32 UTC, Ferhat Kurtulmuş 
> wrote:
>> On Monday, 13 January 2020 at 11:08:45 UTC, Ferhat Kurtulmuş 
>> wrote:
>>> On Monday, 13 January 2020 at 10:28:48 UTC, mark wrote:
>>>> I'm just starting out learning D.
>>>>
>>>> Andrei Alexandrescu's "The D Programming Language" is 10 
>>>> years old, so is it still worth getting? (I don't know how 
>>>> much D has changed in 10 years.)
>>>
>>> Depending on your background:
>>>
>>> https://wiki.dlang.org/First_Language
>>> https://wiki.dlang.org/Coming_From
>>
>> Even if you are not new to programming this book would be a 
>> good start:
>> http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html
>
> Thanks for the links.
>
> I should have said that I find it a *lot* easier learning from 
> a print book than online which is why I asked about the 
> Alexandrescu book.
>
> Has D changed enough in 10 years to outdate that book? I know 
> most other languages have but I'm completely new to D.

I'll also throw out that the books by Andrei, Mike Parker, and 
Adam Ruppe are available on O'Reilly's Safari if you have access. 
You could see which you like best and order that one.


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