Need to find materials for new learners about this programming language

[bpr]

On Tuesday, 6 August 2019 at 18:58:20 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 08/06/2019 10:52 AM, bpr wrote:
> > Cool! One thing I didn't care for reading this that templates
> are
> > introduced via the shorthand for function and struct/class
> templates,
> > rather than introducing the general template mechanism first
> and then
> > showing the shorthand. Templates are one of D's best features
> and I
> > don't think they should be cropped to fit the C++ viewpoint.
>
> I think it comes from my earlier choice of that order. (RazvanN 
> and others relied of my format.) I don't remember now exactly 
> why but it was usually for trying to minimize forward 
> references. The actual syntax appears 14 chapters after the 
> shorthand syntax:
>
>   http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/templates_more.html
>
> Ali

Oh I didn't realize that, and didn't mean to disparage your book, 
which is an outstanding introduction to D aimed at beginning 
programmers. I assumed that the page I cited was intended for 
people who knew a bit about programming. That said, have you ever 
considered introducing it the other way?

The full D template is powerful, and reminds me a bit of the 
parameterized modules of ML family languages like OCaml and SML.