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reply ikelaiah <iwan.kelaiah gmail.com> writes:
Hi,

I got a new programming book yesterday, authored by Adam D. Rupee.

![new-book](https://www.linkpicture.com/q/20221106_142031_1.jpg).

I'm still in **Chapter 1**, on the matter of `Immutable` 
variables.
Can't wait to read **Chapter 7** on **Corectness and 
Documentation**.

So far, I really like the book.

- Alexandrei's foreword on the importance of drawing experience 
from and for others.
- The book convention (code, info, warning, new terms, etc) is 
easy to follow.
- The explanation is also easy to digest.



Currently work with: Python, R, PHP, SQL, common web-stack (html, 
css, js+libs).

I'm  hoping to integrate more D into my data transformation and 
data reporting workflow.

 Adam D. Rupee, thanks for this book.

Regards,
Ikel
Nov 06 2022
next sibling parent Imperatorn <johan_forsberg_86 hotmail.com> writes:
On Sunday, 6 November 2022 at 22:43:33 UTC, ikelaiah wrote:

 Hi,

 I got a new programming book yesterday, authored by Adam D. 
 Rupee.

 [...]


Agreed. It's a great book with a "get it done"-attitude <3
Nov 06 2022
prev sibling parent reply zjh <fqbqrr 163.com> writes:
On Sunday, 6 November 2022 at 22:43:33 UTC, ikelaiah wrote:

 Hi,

...


Is there a second edition? After all, it has been many years.
Nov 06 2022
next sibling parent reply Adam D Ruppe <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 7 November 2022 at 00:55:33 UTC, zjh wrote:

 Is there a second edition? After all, it has been many years.


No, but not that much has changed and you can always post here 
with questions.
Nov 06 2022
parent reply zjh <fqbqrr 163.com> writes:
On Monday, 7 November 2022 at 01:06:23 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:


 No, but not that much has changed and you can always post here 
 with questions.


How is your `minigui`? Please write an `introduction` when you 
have time.
Nov 06 2022
parent reply Adam D Ruppe <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 7 November 2022 at 06:10:46 UTC, zjh wrote:

 How is your `minigui`? Please write an `introduction` when you 
 have time.


It is on my list but minigui is a pretty simple class collection 
of basic widgets. It works pretty well now. I don't have too many 
intro examples yet though. My blog has one thing but it uses an 
experimental piece 
(http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2020_11_02.html) 
that isn't  really representative of the average program.

But if I make it to the dconf online I'll probably show off a 
minigui application there this year.
Nov 08 2022
parent zjh <fqbqrr 163.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 8 November 2022 at 13:55:44 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:


 It is on my list but minigui is a pretty simple class 
 collection of basic widgets. It works pretty well now. I don't 
 have too many intro examples yet though. My blog has one thing 
 but it uses an experimental piece 
 (http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2020_11_02.html) that isn't 
really representative of the average program.

 But if I make it to the dconf online I'll probably show off a 
 minigui application there this year.



Thank you. I think `gui` is also suitable for d.
Nov 08 2022
prev sibling parent reply ikelaiah <iwan.kelaiah gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 7 November 2022 at 00:55:33 UTC, zjh wrote:

 Is there a second edition? After all, it has been many years.


Hi zjh,

I'm aware of the publication date. However, I find the content 
still highly relevant to many day-to-day tasks (my use case).

No doubt, there will be new features in the std library.
For further/additional tips and tricks, I'd gladly ask in the D 
discord channel or this forum.

-Ikel
Nov 06 2022
next sibling parent zjh <fqbqrr 163.com> writes:
On Monday, 7 November 2022 at 04:54:05 UTC, ikelaiah wrote:

...


Yes, more than 100 skills, not easy get.
Nov 06 2022
prev sibling parent Adam D Ruppe <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 7 November 2022 at 04:54:05 UTC, ikelaiah wrote:

 I'm aware of the publication date. However, I find the content 
 still highly relevant to many day-to-day tasks (my use case).


Yeah, I tried to focus more on the ideas behind it than the 
specifics of a library. My thought is if you understand what it 
is trying to do, the adjustments to bring it up to date shouldn't 
be too hard.

It took some effort to avoid talking more about my libraries 
though lol. I did do a few small examples near the end of the 
book, and some of those have had minor changes, like I've since 
renamed "import simpledisplay" to "import arsd.simpledisplay". 
But the rest of it should still work, i try to keep things pretty 
stable in my libs.

BTW one of the things in chapter 2 i found surprisingly popular 
was the talk about std.socket. I did write a follow-up to that in 
my blog here:
http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2019_11_11.html#sockets-tutorial

Since the socket api is the same as C, I assumed people would 
know it from other sources, but the C api isn't as common 
knowledge as it used to be. So this tries to explain (tho even 
there I didn't go into ipv6 fallbacks and whatnot but it still 
lays the foundation).

And of course always feel free to ask here or whatever about 
anything, if I'm online I try to answer things pretty quickly.
Nov 08 2022