D course material

[bachmeier]

On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 12:39:24 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> Hi, folks!
>
> I’m testing waters for a D course at one University for first 
> time it’ll be an optional thing. It’s still discussed but may 
> very well become a reality.
>
> Before you ask - no, I’m not lecturing and in fact, I didn’t 
> suggest D in the first place! Academics are finally seeing 
> light in the gloom of 1 year OOP in C++ course having 
> underwhelming results.
>
> Now to the point, I remeber Chuck Allison (pardon if I 
> misspelled) doing D lectures at Utah Valley University, here:
> https://dconf.org/2014/talks/allison.html
>
> There is also Ali’s book. But anything else easily adoptable as 
> course material?
>
> —
> Dmitry Olshansky

Carl Sturtivant taught a course using D at the U of Minnesota:
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/km96ho$2grm$1@digitalmars.com
Maybe he can give you some information.

Adam's book would work well for teaching, because the examples 
are short yet practical, and the only overhead is putting a file 
or two inside the directory and compiling.

If you want to teach about templates, this is an excellent 
resource:
https://github.com/PhilippeSigaud/D-templates-tutorial