An effort at creating a free ebook for learning D

[Jose Armando Garcia]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Jimmy Cao <jcao219 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I helped with something last summer: an attempt at creating a wikibook for
> D.  At that time, my D skills were very bad, so I had to concentrate on
> learning D first before contributing to more lessons.
> One thing that has always bothered me is, there aren't many good *free*
> ebooks for learning D.
> Well, I'll try to continue what I had started less than a year ago.  I'll
> probably make many mistakes while writing, so can you guys check on my
> progress once in a while?
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/D_(The_Programming_Language)/d2/Lesson_1/Phobos
> What do you think?
> Thanks.

Good idea. Small notes:

*) In the tip section 'write("Hello\n") and writeln("Hello")' are not
the same. writeln and writefln flush. write doesn't.
*) Not sure if you want to also encourage portable code. "\n" should
be replace with newline which I think it is define in std.string.