Hello,

First, here is my Linkedin profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreiboar in order to make an image of my professional background. I do realise here are really good programmers for which this background might sound like a joke, but this is what I did so far.

After watching some presentantions from DConf, and trying the language I decided to give it a try in the future.

Currrently I'm reading the Programming in D book by Ali Çehreli, and then The D Programming Language by Andrei Alexandrescu in order to learn more.

The reason I post this is to ask you what other books do you think I should try in order to become hireable in the next 2 years?

As a web developer I know I lack a lot of information, but I'm willing to do the hard work. So if anyone has any other books/things I need to know and is willing to make me like a small roadmap to become a good D developer I would really appreciate.

Thanks a lot,
Andrei

There's Adam Ruppe's excellent "D Cookbook" available here:
https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/d-cookbook

And since you specifically said "web developer" I hope you're looking at vibe.d:
http://vibed.org/

On Sunday, 7 September 2014 at 21:06:48 UTC, zuzuleinen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First, here is my Linkedin profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreiboar in order to make an image of my professional background. I do realise here are really good programmers for which this background might sound like a joke, but this is what I did so far.
>
> After watching some presentantions from DConf, and trying the language I decided to give it a try in the future.
>
> Currrently I'm reading the Programming in D book by Ali Çehreli, and then The D Programming Language by Andrei Alexandrescu in order to learn more.
>
> The reason I post this is to ask you what other books do you think I should try in order to become hireable in the next 2 years?
>
> As a web developer I know I lack a lot of information, but I'm willing to do the hard work. So if anyone has any other books/things I need to know and is willing to make me like a small roadmap to become a good D developer I would really appreciate.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Andrei

I would also recommend for you to investigate my work on:
Cmsed[0]
Dakka[1]
Dvorm[2]
livereload[3]
skeleton[4]

Please note next version of Cmsed which will support livereload/skeleton/Dakka is currently not ready to go on github.

[0] https://github.com/rikkimax/Cmsed
[1] https://github.com/rikkimax/dakka
[2] https://github.com/rikkimax/Dvorm
[3] https://github.com/rikkimax/livereload
[4] https://github.com/rikkimax/skeleton

On Sunday, 7 September 2014 at 21:06:48 UTC, zuzuleinen wrote:
> The reason I post this is to ask you what other books do you think I should try in order to become hireable in the next 2 years?

See http://forum.dlang.org/thread/sgtnnyvmhxzexupgwvpe@forum.dlang.org

On Sunday, 7 September 2014 at 21:06:48 UTC, zuzuleinen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First, here is my Linkedin profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreiboar in order to make an image of my professional background. I do realise here are really good programmers for which this background might sound like a joke, but this is what I did so far.
>
> After watching some presentantions from DConf, and trying the language I decided to give it a try in the future.
>
> Currrently I'm reading the Programming in D book by Ali Çehreli, and then The D Programming Language by Andrei Alexandrescu in order to learn more.
>
> The reason I post this is to ask you what other books do you think I should try in order to become hireable in the next 2 years?
>
> As a web developer I know I lack a lot of information, but I'm willing to do the hard work. So if anyone has any other books/things I need to know and is willing to make me like a small roadmap to become a good D developer I would really appreciate.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Andrei

Hi and welcome.

I find it great that you want to learn and grow as a developer, many web devs don't and yet still think they're awesome. Using a language like D is a complete departure from what you've been doing so far because it compiles to native code and with that brings quite a few things to learn.

So where to start. First, i would take time to learn about pointers. These are pretty fundamental when dealing with native code and there's no real way of getting around that. Here's a five minute guide:

http://denniskubes.com/2012/08/16/the-5-minute-guide-to-c-pointers/

After that i would probably familiarise myself with the compiler and linker:

http://dlang.org/dmd-windows.html
http://dlang.org/dmd-linux.html
http://www.lurklurk.org/linkers/linkers.html

You're already reading Ali's and Andrei's books so that's good.

Try reading the phobos documentation to familiarise yourself with the library:

http://dlang.org/phobos/index.html

Maybe controversial but i would also consider reading the C book for a good grounding in pointers and memory allocation, etc. A lot of this is relevant in D.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language

It's nice to know these basics and you'll appreciate D a whole lot more coming from C. ;)

Remember to ask questions here as you go.

Thank you all for all your suggestions, I really appreciate them :)

Now it's time to dive in, you gave me good resources :)

On Sunday, 7 September 2014 at 21:06:48 UTC, zuzuleinen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First, here is my Linkedin profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreiboar in order to make an image of my professional background. I do realise here are really good programmers for which this background might sound like a joke, but this is what I did so far.
>
> After watching some presentantions from DConf, and trying the language I decided to give it a try in the future.
>
> Currrently I'm reading the Programming in D book by Ali Çehreli, and then The D Programming Language by Andrei Alexandrescu in order to learn more.
>
> The reason I post this is to ask you what other books do you think I should try in order to become hireable in the next 2 years?
>
> As a web developer I know I lack a lot of information, but I'm willing to do the hard work. So if anyone has any other books/things I need to know and is willing to make me like a small roadmap to become a good D developer I would really appreciate.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Andrei

Before go to D I recomend you to take a look at the C programming language (as Gary Willoughby already mentioned). I think it's really fundamental.

On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 20:47:19 +0000
AsmMan via Digitalmars-d-learn <digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com>
wrote:

> Before go to D I recomend you to take a look at the C programming language (as Gary Willoughby already mentioned). I think it's really fundamental.
do you really want him to drop programming? there is no need to start with "Ford Model T" to drive "Lamborghini Estoque". *conceptions* are fundamental, not languages. and D is much better starting point than C. i know it, i have almost two decades of C expirience.

On Monday, 8 September 2014 at 20:58:20 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 20:47:19 +0000
> AsmMan via Digitalmars-d-learn <digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Before go to D I recomend you to take a look at the C programming language (as Gary Willoughby already mentioned). I think it's really fundamental.
> do you really want him to drop programming? there is no need to start
> with "Ford Model T" to drive "Lamborghini Estoque". *conceptions* are
> fundamental, not languages. and D is much better starting point than C.
> i know it, i have almost two decades of C expirience.

I would agree but that little C book is an amazing read and full of valuable lessons.

On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 21:05:53 +0000
Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d-learn
<digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> wrote:

> I would agree but that little C book is an amazing read and full of valuable lessons.
and pointer arithmetic, and memory leaks, and zero-terminated strings, and writing generic algoritms with ugly casting, and... bad habits die hard.