Dlang.org needs a "Getting Started" page

[Era Scarecrow]

On Tuesday, 31 January 2012 at 05:31:47 UTC, Xinok wrote:
> Just a thought, but I think the official website really needs a 
> Getting Started page for newcomers. This page should make it as 
> effortless as possible by providing all the information and 
> resources needed for one to dive right into D. Not everything 
> needs to be covered by this page, but it should provide links 
> as necessary.

Hmmm, I would also think having a section of tutorials that steps 
you through the process, perhaps as a video on youtube? Course 
the tutorials I'm thinking is taking something and either 
converting C++ code, or making something original and then 
expanding it and the thought process on how to improve the code, 
adding generics and templates, writing a mixing function one step 
at a time. Adding a unittest to prove it works.

Perhaps I'm thinking more of a walk-through lecture, since I 
don't want so much a wall of text as someone actually talking to 
me.

It could do that for almost everything, explaining how a delegate 
would be useful and why it works, and a few good portions on text 
and string manipulation for unicode.

So far the best examples on coding and whatnot were from a 
stanford university lecture and an introduction to the [b]STL[/b] 
from microsoft.


Hmmm I also think perhaps adding a easy pdf download of the 
library reference you could print off; I find it increasingly 
annoying to switch back and forth on the html when I wouldn't 
mind having it in a paper form. But perhaps that's just me....