"Programming in D" book, draft of the first print edition and eBook formats

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce]

Main page:

   http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/


1) For the first time, there are eBook formats:

   http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/Programming_in_D_Ali_Cehreli.ALPHA.epub

   http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/Programming_in_D_Ali_Cehreli.ALPHA.mobi

I used 'calibre' to generate those "alpha" quality books. I chose epub 
and mobi just because I thought that they are the most common formats. 
Just let me know if you need another format or simply use 'calibre' or 
another tool yourself. :)


2) There has been a lot of work to make the book ready for its first 
print edition. (I will spare you the details of countless hours of extra 
work that went into this "eternal final step".)

The PDF version finally looks a lot like a real book:

* There is a Table of Contents section

* There is an Index section

* The internal links work


3) There are two new chapters:

* Lvalues and Rvalues

* Nested Functions, Structs, and Classes


4) There are the following notable additions to existing chapters:

* 'pragma' is added to the Templates chapter

* Special keywords are added to the Templates chapter (__FILE__, 
__LINE__, etc.)

* Contract inheritance is added to the 'Contract Programming for Structs 
and Classes' chapter

* The .offsetof property and the 'align' atribute are added to the 
'Memory Management' chapter


5) I am grateful to Andrej Mitrović, Steven Schveighoffer, and Luís 
Marques, who accepted to edit the book. However, they are through only 
less than 10% of the book so far. As always, current or future mistakes 
are mine. :)

Ali