I've considering learning full D. I remembered that D is not recommended as a first language, So I read time ago.

So my question, is learning C and Python a good intro before learning D?

TY

On Friday, 5 July 2019 at 12:00:15 UTC, Binarydepth wrote:
> I've considering learning full D. I remembered that D is not recommended as a first language, So I read time ago.
>
> So my question, is learning C and Python a good intro before learning D?
>
> TY

Both C and Python provide valuable and complementary experience no matter what you want to do. If your goal is specifically to learn D then I'd learn C up to structures. That way you'll have basic tools and vocabulary that you can reuse in D and you can learn the rest as you go.

The things that will be hard if you want to learn D directly:

- not as many examples and tutorials on the internet (although there are some very good ones)

- lots of concepts and vocabulary (always remember that you *don't* have to know every detail of the language, learn what you need to solve the problem at hand, one thing at a time)

- not as many libraries, which means that it can be harder to solve a problem that not many people have had yet (popular things like web applications will be alright)

I think D isn't that bad of a first language. Once you've passed the vocabulary barrier you'll get the benefit of having a language that'll fit most of your tasks from little scripting or web applications to low-level programming and big projects. You will be confronted to many concepts and ideas without having to learn a new language each time and this knowledge is useful even if you decide to use another language later on.

On Friday, 5 July 2019 at 12:00:15 UTC, Binarydepth wrote:
> I've considering learning full D. I remembered that D is not recommended as a first language, So I read time ago.
>
> So my question, is learning C and Python a good intro before learning D?
>
> TY

Ali's book is targeted at beginners (see link below).  I don't see why D wouldn't make a good first language.  If your objective is to learn D, then I don't think learning C or Python is going to be help that much.  Obviously if you know C/Python you can learn D more quickly, but I doubt the effort is worth it if D is the ultimate goal.

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

On Friday, 5 July 2019 at 13:56:18 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
> Ali's book is targeted at beginners (see link below).  I don't see why D wouldn't make a good first language.  If your objective is to learn D, then I don't think learning C or Python is going to be help that much.  Obviously if you know C/Python you can learn D more quickly, but I doubt the effort is worth it if D is the ultimate goal.
>
> http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html

I will second Craig's recommendation to spend some time going through Ali's book.  It strikes a good balance between being an introduction to programming in general, and to D in particular.  While I have dabbled in half a dozen languages or so over the years, I find D to be a lot more accessible than many of the other languages I've tried.  Part of that comes do the language design (similarities to C and Python) but mostly to the helpful community you will find here.  Good luck!