My first experience as a D Newbie

[jmh530]

On Wednesday, 11 October 2017 at 07:23:02 UTC, Peter R wrote:
> [snip] I've spent weeks trying to get VS Code configured, and 
> still haven't gotten debugging to work. An idiot-proof step by 
> step guide would be nice, maybe like this "step 1 install VS 
> Code from this link, DMD from this link, Dub from this link, 
> step 2 install these 5 extensions in VS Code, step 3 make these 
> manual changes to the configuration, step 4 download this 
> sample project and open it, step 5 here are the 5 important 
> commands you need to build and run". If there was a 15-minute 
> guide, it would be much easier to get to the parts that matter.

I don't use VS Code, but this is probably worth doing. I don't 
think I've ever set up debugging on Windows for D. I just put in 
writeln statements to try and figure out what's going on.