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digitalmars.D - Using information from the dlang sit

reply celavek <cetatzeanum yahoo.com> writes:
Hi,

I would like to know if I can use information from the dlang sit, 
verbatim or not,
to upstart the D language track on www.exercism.io.

Thanks
Jul 07 2016
parent reply Seb <seb wilzba.ch> writes:
On Thursday, 7 July 2016 at 08:15:26 UTC, celavek wrote:

 Hi,

 I would like to know if I can use information from the dlang 
 sit, verbatim or not,
 to upstart the D language track on www.exercism.io.

 Thanks


Your project (an open source platform for programming exercises) 
looks very nice. I don't see any problem in using information 
from dlang.org - especially for teaching D to newcomers. Most of 
the content is licensed under the Boost license, however if you 
are in doubt you should ask Andrei and Walter. They can speak for 
the D Language Foundation.

Btw you should also have a look at tour.dlang.org and Ali's 
excellent book: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html
Jul 07 2016
parent reply celavek <cetatzeanum yahoo.com> writes:
On Thursday, 7 July 2016 at 14:14:01 UTC, Seb wrote:


 Your project (an open source platform for programming 
 exercises) looks very nice. I don't see any problem in using 
 information from dlang.org - especially for teaching D to 
 newcomers. Most of the content is licensed under the Boost 
 license, however if you are in doubt you should ask Andrei and 
 Walter. They can speak for the D Language Foundation.

 Btw you should also have a look at tour.dlang.org and Ali's 
 excellent book: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html


Thanks for the pointers.

It is not my project. It was started by Katrina Owen. I'm trying 
to get
involved and as I'm also learning D I was thinking it would be a 
good
idea to jumpstart the D track there.

I was planning to use the info from the D "tour" pages to fill 
some basic
doc required by the sit. I've also seen Ali's book and I find it 
excellent.
Jul 08 2016
parent Carl Vogel <carljv gmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 8 July 2016 at 07:32:30 UTC, celavek wrote:

 On Thursday, 7 July 2016 at 14:14:01 UTC, Seb wrote:


 Your project (an open source platform for programming 
 exercises) looks very nice. I don't see any problem in using 
 information from dlang.org - especially for teaching D to 
 newcomers. Most of the content is licensed under the Boost 
 license, however if you are in doubt you should ask Andrei and 
 Walter. They can speak for the D Language Foundation.

 Btw you should also have a look at tour.dlang.org and Ali's 
 excellent book: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html


 Thanks for the pointers.

 It is not my project. It was started by Katrina Owen. I'm 
 trying to get
 involved and as I'm also learning D I was thinking it would be 
 a good
 idea to jumpstart the D track there.

 I was planning to use the info from the D "tour" pages to fill 
 some basic
 doc required by the sit. I've also seen Ali's book and I find 
 it excellent.


I think this is a great idea. I've used exercism with several 
languages and had a lot of fun.  I did some work making a D track 
a while ago, but let it fall by the wayside.

One thing you should do if this goes live is promote it here and 
encourage people to participate. Exercism really shines if there 
are active nitpickers (their name for code reviewers) commenting 
on people's answers. If some of the champion helpers in the Learn 
forum here participated on the exercism track, it would really 
help to make it successful, and encourage newbies.
Jul 08 2016