Promoting TutorialsPoint's D tutorial

12345swordy via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Aug 26 16:45:23 PDT 2017


On Saturday, 26 August 2017 at 22:26:00 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
> First I'd like to say the Dlang-Tour is a very good idea.
>
> Personally, *everytime* I push the "next" button I'm surprised 
> there is *only* 1 example, while I'd expect at least 3 or 4 
> examples showing :
> 1. how to declare, use and print variables, including strings, 
> slices and maps.
> 2. how to declare imperative functions
> 3. how to declare classes with attributes and methods
> 4. how to call functions and methods with the same dot 
> notation, with or without parentheses
>
> Anyway, that's not what I wanted to say in this post.
>
> My point is that when you arrive to the further reading, you 
> are invited to buy Ali's book :
>
> "Basic resources
>
>     New to programming? This book is a great starting place for 
> beginners"
>
> I've no problem with that, but would it be possible to consider 
> adding also a link to this tutorial in the same paragraph ?
>
> https://www.tutorialspoint.com/d_programming/
>
> It's not because TutorialsPoint pay me, but because it may be 
> one of the best D tutorials out there for both beginner D 
> programmers.
>
> And honestly, at the moment it's not really that easy to reach 
> this tutorial from the dlang website.
>
> First you have to push on "Tutorials", then in the middle of 
> the page you see a boring flat grey icon with this text beside :
>
> "D programming
> Unknown
> January 1, 2015
> A nice introductory tutorial to D programming. Available 
> on-line and in the PDF format.
> Website"
>
> The text is fine, but unfortunately the impersonal icon and 
> text ("D programming") aren't that inviting...
>
> If you don't want to put the link on the "Further reading 
> page", maybe would you consider putting this nice tutorial for 
> beginners just under the four official D books, before the more 
> advanced readings ?
>
> I guess many beginner D programmers will thank you :)
>
> Because a few month ago I've been that beginner D programmer, 
> and sadly I've completely missed this perfect tutorial. And 
> I've just explained you why...
>
> So why not supposing other programmers will have the same 
> problem, and maybe miss it just like me ?
The tutorial needs to cover advance topics such as manual memory 
management and the standard phobos library. It only scratchs the 
surface of the D programming language and it is not showing how 
powerful that D is, when it comes to the template programming 
when comparing to c++ template programming.



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