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reply "Jeremy DeHaan" <dehaan.jeremiah gmail.com> writes:
I've been using D for a few months now, and i love it. It dawned 
on me that it would be nice to have some books to go over though!

I saw "The D Programming Language" by Andrei Alexandrescu on 
Amazon, and I almost bought it when I saw it was written in 2010. 
I know that D is under development, so would this book still be a 
viable option?

Are there any other books that someone would recommend?

Thanks much!
Oct 13 2012
next sibling parent Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe semitwist.com> writes:
On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 11:29:29 +0200
"Jeremy DeHaan" <dehaan.jeremiah gmail.com> wrote:


 I've been using D for a few months now, and i love it. It dawned 
 on me that it would be nice to have some books to go over though!
 
 I saw "The D Programming Language" by Andrei Alexandrescu on 
 Amazon, and I almost bought it when I saw it was written in 2010. 
 I know that D is under development, so would this book still be a 
 viable option?


 
That book is THE definitive book on D. Highly recommended.
Oct 13 2012
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:
On Saturday, October 13, 2012 11:29:29 Jeremy DeHaan wrote:

 I've been using D for a few months now, and i love it. It dawned
 on me that it would be nice to have some books to go over though!
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 I saw "The D Programming Language" by Andrei Alexandrescu on
 Amazon, and I almost bought it when I saw it was written in 2010.
 I know that D is under development, so would this book still be a
 viable option?
=20
 Are there any other books that someone would recommend?
=20
 Thanks much!


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errata:

http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata/

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pretty much intended to be the definitive resource on D. It's the best=20=

programming book that I've ever read, and I'd strongly recommend it to =
anyone=20
learning D. I think that any serious D programmer who doesn't read it i=
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changing themselves.

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=C3=87ehreli:

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

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question that it's the best that there is.

- Jonathan M Davis
Oct 13 2012
parent reply Lubos Pintes <lubos.pintes gmail.com> writes:
So this means there is no chance to obtain the TDPL legally in some 
accessible format? I mean similar to chapter 1, which is released on 
dlang.org. For blind, PDF or even paper makes no sense...
Well, PDF sometimes, but rarely.

Dòa 13. 10. 2012 11:40 Jonathan M Davis  wrote / napísal(a):

 On Saturday, October 13, 2012 11:29:29 Jeremy DeHaan wrote:

 I've been using D for a few months now, and i love it. It dawned
 on me that it would be nice to have some books to go over though!

 I saw "The D Programming Language" by Andrei Alexandrescu on
 Amazon, and I almost bought it when I saw it was written in 2010.
 I know that D is under development, so would this book still be a
 viable option?

 Are there any other books that someone would recommend?

 Thanks much!


 That is _the_ D book. It's mostly correct, and what's not should be in the
 errata:

 http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata/

 The main exceptions would be a few items which haven't been fully implemented
 yet (e.g. multiple alias thises per type), but they should be implemented
 eventually, so the book will become _more_ correct in that regard. TDPL is
 pretty much intended to be the definitive resource on D. It's the best
 programming book that I've ever read, and I'd strongly recommend it to anyone
 learning D. I think that any serious D programmer who doesn't read it is short
 changing themselves.

 The only other option that I'm aware of is this free, online book by Ali
 Çehreli:

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

 It was originally written in Turkish, but a lot of it has been translated. I
 really don't know how good it is though, as I haven't read much of it (though
 I expect that it's just fine given who the author is). But if you're not
 willing to shell out the $34 for TDPL or want another reference, there's no
 question that it's the best that there is.

 - Jonathan M Davis
Oct 13 2012
parent =?UTF-8?B?QWxpIMOHZWhyZWxp?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:
On 10/13/2012 05:42 AM, Lubos Pintes wrote:

 So this means there is no chance to obtain the TDPL legally in some
 accessible format?


My copy of the TDPL says "free online edition with the purchase of this 
book." It's supposed to be an Safari Online Books.


 For blind, PDF or even paper makes no sense...
 Well, PDF sometimes, but rarely.


I don't know how accessible the Safari edition is.


 I mean similar to chapter 1, which is released on
 dlang.org.


"Concurrency in the D Programming Language", another excellent chapter 
of TDPL is also freely available:

   http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1609144


 Dňa 13. 10. 2012 11:40 Jonathan M Davis wrote / napísal(a):



 The only other option that I'm aware of is this free, online book by Ali
 Çehreli:

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

 It was originally written in Turkish, but a lot of it has been
 translated. I
 really don't know how good it is though, as I haven't read much of it
 (though
 I expect that it's just fine given who the author is). But if you're not
 willing to shell out the $34 for TDPL or want another reference,
 there's no
 question that it's the best that there is.




Thank you Jonathan. Here is what I know about that book:

- The book is written for people who are very new to programming. 
Especially the first chapters would be boring for experienced programmers.

- The book progresses in a style that may be hard to follow for many 
people: It tries not to use features of D unless they have been 
introduced in the previous chapters. There are rare exceptions of this rule.

- Parts of the book has been written while I was learning D from a point 
of view of a C++ programmer. The good news is, most of the chapters that 
are in English have been greatly revised. (It is so easy to correct 
mistakes and improve chapters of online material.) One of the things 
that I still need to get rid of is the hash_t and equals_t aliases. ;)

Ali
Oct 13 2012
prev sibling next sibling parent Jordi Sayol <g.sayol yahoo.es> writes:
Al 13/10/12 11:29, En/na Jeremy DeHaan ha escrit:

 I've been using D for a few months now, and i love it. It dawned on me =


that it would be nice to have some books to go over though!

=20
 I saw "The D Programming Language" by Andrei Alexandrescu on Amazon, an=


d I almost bought it when I saw it was written in 2010. I know that D is =
under development, so would this book still be a viable option?

=20
 Are there any other books that someone would recommend?
=20
 Thanks much!
=20


Ali =C3=87ehreli wrote a nice book in Turkish to learn D from scratch, th=
at is partially translated to English.

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

It's available on-line and as pdf file.

Regards,
--=20
Jordi Sayol
Oct 13 2012
prev sibling next sibling parent "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh quickfur.ath.cx> writes:
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:29:29AM +0200, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:

 I've been using D for a few months now, and i love it. It dawned on
 me that it would be nice to have some books to go over though!
 
 I saw "The D Programming Language" by Andrei Alexandrescu on Amazon,
 and I almost bought it when I saw it was written in 2010. I know
 that D is under development, so would this book still be a viable
 option?
 
 Are there any other books that someone would recommend?


[...]

I agree with the other replies: most definitely get Andrei's book (known
by its acronym TDPL around these parts). I had been intending to get
into D for a while before I found the book in my local bookstore; but it
was after I started reading it that I *really* started to grok what D
was about.

In short, it's a definite must-read. Even though there are some (small)
discrepancies between the book and the current D implementation, the
intent is to move in the direction of the book. So you'll be missing out
a lot if you pass over it.


T

-- 
Mediocrity has been pushed to extremes.
Oct 13 2012
prev sibling parent "Jeremy DeHaan" <dehaan.jeremiah gmail.com> writes:
Thanks, guys!


I will definitely pick up TDPL!

And I have seen the online book by Ali Çehreli, and actually 
have a copy saved. It is a great source.

Thanks again for all the input!
Oct 13 2012