D course material

[aberba]

On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 21:12:16 UTC, David Gileadi wrote:
> On 3/13/18 2:08 PM, aberba wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 17:20:57 UTC, Meta wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 12:39:24 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
>>> wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Honestly I'd recommend TDPL. It's got a lot of good 
>>> real-world examples, including some OOP ones, but more 
>>> importantly examples that demonstrate concurrent programming, 
>>> generic programming, procedural, and I think a few functional 
>>> examples as well. Basically, it covers a very broad area in 
>>> one book while also teaching you D.
>> 
>> Boring stuff IMO.
>
> Interesting that you found it boring--I found it to be the 
> opposite. It is one of the few programming books that I can 
> read for enjoyment.

The D Programming Language (TDPL) is a big book so it will be 
boring. I used it whilst learning about the complete features of 
D (mostly just reading like story book though). So we all read 
just like you said:

> It is one of the few programming books that I can read for 
> enjoyment.

But its not one you would want to use for courses (short time).

Its different however, when you're using them to solve real-world 
problems that are actually real-world i.e. you justify why such 
feature needs to be used. Then its not boring. Quite often than 
not, such courses mostly bombard you with the theories.