• No-one8 (7/7) Apr 11 2006 Hi,
• Sean Kelly (10/16) Apr 11 2006 D lacks the documentation and instructional materials of most other
• HienTau (8/17) Apr 13 2006 As a beginner I found D to be too difficult. There are quite some

No-one8 <No-one8_member pathlink.com> writes:

Hi, 
I have a lot of free time, and i just wanted to start to learn some new
programming language. I'd use to by a Lingo programmer the past century, but im
not familiarized with the language syntax such as C, C++, java, etc, etc, etc.
Should i start learning some of those languages and then pass to D, or can i
start learning D from the very,very,very beginning?.
Thanks

Sean Kelly <sean f4.ca> writes:

No-one8 wrote:
 Hi, 
 I have a lot of free time, and i just wanted to start to learn some new
 programming language. I'd use to by a Lingo programmer the past century, but im
 not familiarized with the language syntax such as C, C++, java, etc, etc, etc.
 Should i start learning some of those languages and then pass to D, or can i
 start learning D from the very,very,very beginning?.

D lacks the documentation and instructional materials of most other 
languages, but I think the language itself should be quite 
understandable to new programmers.  Certainly moreso than C++, at any 
rate.  You could always try it and ask questions here if something 
doesn't make sense.  Also, books on C++ and similar languages should 
help with basic language syntax in D.  If you decide to buy a C++ book, 
I reccommend "You Can Do It!" by Francis Glassborow or "Accelerated C++" 
by Andrew Koenig and Barbara Moo.


Sean

HienTau <hientau.mail gmail.com> writes:

No-one8 schrieb:
 Hi, 
 I have a lot of free time, and i just wanted to start to learn some new
 programming language. I'd use to by a Lingo programmer the past century, but im
 not familiarized with the language syntax such as C, C++, java, etc, etc, etc.
 Should i start learning some of those languages and then pass to D, or can i
 start learning D from the very,very,very beginning?.
 Thanks
 
 

As a beginner I found D to be too difficult. There are quite some 
problems like the lack of mature libraries and, much worse, good 
documentation. I'd rather recommend Java (huge number of libraries and 
lots of docs, clean language approach) or a language from the .NET 

If you can cope with one of these languages, D is just a short step away.

HienTau