http://lang-index.sourceforge.net/

[Jens Mueller]

bearophile wrote:
> Andrej Mitrovic:
> 
> > I was browsing through that D filter on google, and found this:
> > http://theinf2.informatik.uni-jena.de/For+Students/Lectures/D+Programming.html
> > 
> > This must be the second school to teach D that I know of, after I've
> > heard about Utah Valley University. It looks like D is catching up!
> 
> From my experience teaching is _much_ better when it's bidirectional.
> This means that I'd encourage those teachers to collect some
> statistics, anecdotes, student comments and everything else
> potentially useful about D, to later feed back that information to
> this newsgroups and to Walter. Do you know the name or email address
> of those teachers?

It's my PhD advisor and me. I'm looking forward to the seminar. Let's
see how it goes. Especially I'm interested in the students feedback.
What do they find difficult? What do they find easy?

> Insights from students are for example invaluable to find the harder
> to understand parts of the D language, or the most bug-prone for
> newbies, or the harder to teach. D2 language design is mostly done,
> but many design details can be improved still thanks to
> students/teachers feedback.

Andrei has done a great job with his book. Even though it is not an
introductory text to programming. It is not meant to be that. But I
suppose there are some pitfalls or less obvious things that will come up
during the seminar.

Jens