On Amazon The D Programming Language has good reviews but it's 8 years old. So is this book still relevant today?

Would you recommend another book?

PS: I am already a programmer writing mainly in C and C#.

Thanks,

Marko.

On 12/16/18 1:37 PM, Marko wrote:
> On Amazon The D Programming Language has good reviews but it's 8 years old. So is this book still relevant today?

Mostly, yes. And it's a pretty good book, even if it has some outdated parts. There's errata somewhere too.

> 
> Would you recommend another book?

I highly recommend this book (available online for free or you can purchase a hard copy): http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html

It is continually updated by Ali, so it should be up to date with the latest compiler.

> 
> PS: I am already a programmer writing mainly in C and C#.

I hope you feel right at home here :) But I must warn you, if you're anything like me, you will hate having to go back to another language.

-Steve

On Sunday, 16 December 2018 at 19:57:08 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
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> I hope you feel right at home here :) But I must warn you, if you're anything like me, you will hate having to go back to another language.
>
> -Steve

I think that's how most people start to feel when they start using D a lot.

I know I have over the past few years when I've started to use D for 99% of everything I do.

On Sunday, 16 December 2018 at 18:37:15 UTC, Marko wrote:
> On Amazon The D Programming Language has good reviews but it's 8 years old. So is this book still relevant today?
>
> Would you recommend another book?
>
> PS: I am already a programmer writing mainly in C and C#.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marko.

I can recommend D Cookbook
https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/d-cookbook

and Learning D
https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/learning-d

Sometimes Packt has sales and you can get them pretty cheap. They are rather different books, but both are well written, and they go into reasonable depth on the topics they cover, unlike a lot of programming books I've read.

On 12/16/2018 11:57 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 12/16/18 1:37 PM, Marko wrote:
>> On Amazon The D Programming Language has good reviews but it's 8 years
>> old. So is this book still relevant today?

I would still enjoy reading that book but some parts do not match current D.

> http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html
>
> It is continually updated by Ali, so it should be up to date with the
> latest compiler.

I've been slacking lately. :/

HTML: Mosty up to date with 2.083 and code samples were compiled with it

PDF: ditto

Kindle and other e-books: Last updated on May 2017 :(

Ali

On Sunday, 16 December 2018 at 22:02:44 UTC, bachmeier wrote:

> I can recommend D Cookbook
> https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/d-cookbook
>
> and Learning D
> https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/learning-d

Publish dates are 2014 and 2015. How much the language has changed/evolved since then and how much it will evolve in future ? So are these books relevant today and still next two years ?

> They are rather different books, but both are well written, and they go into reasonable depth on the topics they cover, unlike a lot of programming books I've read.

Sounds great ! I might bought these too if they are still relevant.

On Monday, 17 December 2018 at 06:08:58 UTC, Jani Hur wrote:

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> Publish dates are 2014 and 2015. How much the language has changed/evolved since then and how much it will evolve in future ? So are these books relevant today and still next two years ?

There haven't been any changes in the language significant enough to make either book irrelevant, nor will there be for a while. And the authors of both books hang out on the forums if you find any inaccuracies you'd like to ask about.

On Monday, 17 December 2018 at 06:08:58 UTC, Jani Hur wrote:
> Publish dates are 2014 and 2015. How much the language has changed/evolved since then and how much it will evolve in future ?

There's a few minor changes in mine (the D Cookbook one), and a few typos in the book I didn't catch until too late that mean some examples won't literally compile anyway, but they are all quite small.

I also tried to keep the examples straightforward, but the text talking about the process and thoughts behind it, so you can adapt that to your own purposes and that is fairly timeless. Just some of the stuff in there is a little bit easier now than it was when I wrote it, but knowing the building blocks is still useful and hasn't changed much.

On Sunday, 16 December 2018 at 22:02:44 UTC, bachmeier wrote:

>
> Sometimes Packt has sales and you can get them pretty cheap.

All Packt ebooks are on sale for $5 right now, so this is a great time to pick up both books along with Kai's Vibe.d book.

On Monday, 17 December 2018 at 15:32:37 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

> There's a few minor changes in mine (the D Cookbook one), and a few typos in the book I didn't catch until too late that mean some examples won't literally compile anyway, but they are all quite small.

Are these typos obvious, or is there an errata?

I bought the PDF version, so maybe it's been revised?