suggestion: D Book Project

[Chad J]

Lutger wrote:
> 
> 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++.
> 

C++ as a first language, ouch.  I actually tried this.  The examples in 
the book I was using didn't work.  I was too much of a newbie to 
understand why.  C++ wasn't very intuitive.  The whole thing failed 
miserably.  I've heard of other people learning C++ as a first, but I 
still find it hard to imagine normal human beings doing this without 
being taught in a class or some sort of interactive environment.

Eventually I just learned programming through the scripting language in 
the EasyUO program.  It was useful, easy, and taught me some basic 
programming.

I think D would make a pretty good starting language.  I looked at that 
TOC, maybe mention build at some point when doing modules (chap 7)?  I'd 
hate to have to invoke dmd on every .d file or (cringe) use makefiles.