suggestion: D Book Project

[Lutger]

Great, what target audience do you have in mind? From the looks of the 
TOC it seems beginner. Maybe that is a suggestion, to keep in mind? Then 
  perhaps the book should also adress or refer to programming and 
computer topics more general. Another option is to split it in parts or 
some other way of organization according to background of readers.

Lack of books and tutorials is one of the arguments people have to not 
try D. It's partly true I guess, especially for beginners / novices. 
Even with one reasonable good wikibook I think D will beat C++ as a 
first language - and a lot of people start with C++.

Gregor Richards wrote:
> Derek Parnell wrote:
>> On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:17:05 -0700, Gregor Richards wrote:
>>
>>> Derek Parnell wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 02:31:12 -0400, Agent Orange wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> We should write a book about D, or even a D for C++ programmers 
>>>>> book. It would probably only be a handfull of chapters, and one or 
>>>>> a couple people could do each chapter. maybe even do it on a wiki 
>>>>> or something. I dont know how the styles would mesh but I just 
>>>>> thought this would be pretty cool to have.
>>>> May I refer you to http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/D_Programming
>>>>
>>> That book is not arranged like a book.  Nobody could actually learn D 
>>> from it, even if it was fleshed out.  It needs to be scrapped.
>>
>> Sorry for my far-too-obtuse reference. ;-)
>>
>> What I was trying to get across was that there already exists a wiki
>> platform for writing online books. As an example, there is the beginnings
>> of a D Reference manual. If one wanted to, one could also use the same
>> platform to write a "How To Program using D" style of book.
>> As a start, why not write your proposed TOC as the opening page in such a
>> new endeavor. I know I would like to contribute to it.
>>
> 
> The main problem I have with wikibook is that, without somebody as the 
> official, ordained editor, often people feel that they shouldn't make 
> large rearrangements, when often it's the best solution.  So, it can 
> become fairly stagnant after the original editor either becomes 
> disinterested or simply "finishes" it in his mind.
> 
>  - Gregor Richards
> 
> PS: I'll start one this evening.