On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 16:37:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on the publisher's website:
>
> http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book

I see there's a "sample chapters" tab, which is empty right now. Can we expect some preview chapter coming out soonish, too?

Adam D. Ruppe:

> My goal is to act as a nice complement to Andrei's book, not to repeat it, so while I do cover a lot of language features, I try to do them in the context of bigger picture tasks. So hopefully, the books can go together and reinforce each other.

Congratulations Adam :-)

Now among the printed books about D there's Andrei book, the book about Tango, and your one. Plus there's Ali Çehreli online book, and probably more. Compared to other new languages like Scala there are far less books about D, but the situation is improving :-)

Bye,
bearophile

Excellent! Congratulations! Best of luck finishing the book and publishing it!

On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 18:33:32 UTC, Francesco Cattoglio wrote:
> I see there's a "sample chapters" tab, which is empty right now. Can we expect some preview chapter coming out soonish, too?

I don't know when, but eventually, yes. They'll probably wait for the first draft to be done (a month or so away still) before choosing one to put on the site.

Damn, soon I will need to actually think before choosing what book to recommend to newbies! :)

On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 11:37:48 -0500, Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator@gmail.com> wrote:

> As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on the publisher's website:
>
> http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book
>
>
> I was hoping to have it finished in time for the D conference, but the publisher thought that was too soon to be realistic and it is looking like they are right... right now we believe it will be available in the summer.
>
> Anyway, the topics I talk about include:
>
> * Phobos, including Ranges
> * Testing (both static and run time), documentation, and error handling
> * Reflection and code generation
> * All kinds of fun with structs
> * Integration with other languages and environments
> * Using some third party libraries
>
> and some more. My goal is to act as a nice complement to Andrei's book, not to repeat it, so while I do cover a lot of language features, I try to do them in the context of bigger picture tasks. So hopefully, the books can go together and reinforce each other.

Congratulations! I look forward to reading it.

-Steve

> On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 11:37:48 -0500, Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on the publisher's website:
>>
>>
>> http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book

Nice! I find what you write here always clear and bringing very interesting stuff along. Your posts here are always insightful, I'm really looking forward to reading this

>> * Phobos, including Ranges
>> * Testing (both static and run time), documentation, and error handling
>> * Reflection and code generation
>> * All kinds of fun with structs
>> * Integration with other languages and environments
>> * Using some third party libraries

Nice choice of subjects! Good luck to finish it, it's always a very tiring endeavour.

On 3/3/14, 8:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last
> few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on the publisher's
> website:
>
> http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book

Let's share this on reddit tomorrow at 9 AM PST. Thanks!

Andrei

On 3/3/14, 8:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last
> few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on the publisher's
> website:
>
> http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book

I thought it's implied since I've already been connected to the book as a reviewer: congratulations to Adam for undertaking such a powerful project. I'm enjoying the galleys quite a bit.

Andrei

On 03/03/2014 09:24 AM, Walter Bright wrote:

>> I was hoping to have it finished in time for the D conference, but the
>> publisher
>> thought that was too soon to be realistic and it is looking like they are
>> right...
>
> Dang, we could have set up a table for your book.

He should bring early copies to the conference! Please, please, please... (<-- I've already earned mine. :p )

Ali