Short overview on D

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 3/08/2014 7:36 p.m., Bayan Rafeh wrote:
> A small background on this:
>
> I'm a university student about to start my graduation project with two
> teammates, both of which have a C/Java/Python background and I suggested
> we use D for our project. They're not familiar with it, so I wrote a
> short tutorial for them here: https://github.com/bayanr/d-tutorial.
>
> I wanted to see what you guys thought, and if this could be a useful
> introduction for people with similar backgrounds. It's a first draft so
> it probably has a lot of mistakes, omissions, etc. so any criticism is
> welcome.

Your introduction to templates is far too simplistic.
What you introduced was template blocks. But showing them as templated 
classes.
There is also templated functions, methods ext. After all.
It may also be wise to introduce CTFE as well. But not so important.

I.e.

class ArrayList(T) {
     T[] l;
}

alias IntList = ArrayList!int;
IntList list = new IntList();

would probably be better.
That way also the compiler doesn't have initiate the entire template 
just to get one class definition out of it.

Everything else looks good including mixin templates. But just for food 
for thought. With statements are cool.

Hope to hear more of how the project goes.