Hi. Does anybody who is familair with D consider to make a comprehensive D programming video tutorial / training / course? This could be encouraging and helpful for people to start with D. It could also help in promoting D programming language. This is a question for all the community, please comment what do you think about this idea, we will know if there is an interest in such a training video, or is it just me.

On Sunday, 13 December 2015 at 20:29:47 UTC, Pederator wrote:
> Hi. Does anybody who is familair with D consider to make a comprehensive D programming video tutorial / training / course? This could be encouraging and helpful for people to start with D. It could also help in promoting D programming language. This is a question for all the community, please comment what do you think about this idea, we will know if there is an interest in such a training video, or is it just me.

You're not the first, the other threads asking the same thing can be summarized by "Sure, it would be great, but I'm already working on this and that so I have neither the time nor the competence to do it". If you want it to happen make it happen yourself, you might get help once you're started by I've never seen anybody saying "Oh, right, that's exactly my thing and I've never thought of that, I'll give up my weekends from now on to do that".

On Sunday, 13 December 2015 at 20:45:56 UTC, cym13 wrote:
> On Sunday, 13 December 2015 at 20:29:47 UTC, Pederator wrote:
>> Hi. Does anybody who is familair with D consider to make a comprehensive D programming video tutorial / training / course? This could be encouraging and helpful for people to start with D. It could also help in promoting D programming language. This is a question for all the community, please comment what do you think about this idea, we will know if there is an interest in such a training video, or is it just me.
>
> You're not the first, the other threads asking the same thing can be summarized by "Sure, it would be great, but I'm already working on this and that so I have neither the time nor the competence to do it". If you want it to happen make it happen yourself, you might get help once you're started by I've never seen anybody saying "Oh, right, that's exactly my thing and I've never thought of that, I'll give up my weekends from now on to do that".

Didn't know about the other threads. I think that making a video tutorial takes much less work than writing a book, and there are already a few books on D programming language, but no video tutorial. Besides, creator could earn money on the video as well. Many people prefer to learn from video tutorial, especially on the beginning.

On Sunday, 13 December 2015 at 20:29:47 UTC, Pederator wrote:
> Does anybody who is familair with D consider to make a comprehensive D programming video tutorial / training / course?

I've hired someone out of my own pocket to work on it, with me there to answer questions and review content for correctness.

Slow process though, a lot more work goes into these than you'd think...

On Sunday, 13 December 2015 at 20:29:47 UTC, Pederator wrote:
> Hi. Does anybody who is familair with D consider to make a comprehensive D programming video tutorial / training / course? This could be encouraging and helpful for people to start with D. It could also help in promoting D programming language. This is a question for all the community, please comment what do you think about this idea, we will know if there is an interest in such a training video, or is it just me.

It's almost two years old now but I found this series of videos on D:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-zvF7DyWePQad_E6Y9J9kbYvM7AjnBD1

On 14/12/15 11:04 AM, Xinok wrote:
> On Sunday, 13 December 2015 at 20:29:47 UTC, Pederator wrote:
>> Hi. Does anybody who is familair with D consider to make a
>> comprehensive D programming video tutorial / training / course? This
>> could be encouraging and helpful for people to start with D. It could
>> also help in promoting D programming language. This is a question for
>> all the community, please comment what do you think about this idea,
>> we will know if there is an interest in such a training video, or is
>> it just me.
>
> It's almost two years old now but I found this series of videos on D:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-zvF7DyWePQad_E6Y9J9kbYvM7AjnBD1

Me and Simen Simen Endsjø were working on it.
But honestly? Videos like this are very very hard to make.

I find book writing much easier.

On Sunday, 13 December 2015 at 20:29:47 UTC, Pederator wrote:
> Hi. Does anybody who is familair with D consider to make a comprehensive D programming video tutorial / training / course? This could be encouraging and helpful for people to start with D. It could also help in promoting D programming language. This is a question for all the community, please comment what do you think about this idea, we will know if there is an interest in such a training video, or is it just me.

Hi,

I have written more than 750 tutorials about Java, and made 19 videos. My experience is, that once I have the written tutorial then I also have the TOC for the corresponding video. I can usually record a screencast in about 0,5 to 2 hours, and then it takes about the same time to put the screencast parts together into a coherent video. Someone else can normally do that, though.

I have been thinking about writing about D too. Maybe make a few videos. But I don't know... I don't know how big the interest is in total.

> I have written more than 750 tutorials about Java

... and web development and other related stuff. Not only Java.

I have a few videos on about D on YT.
But those are ... well suboptimal.

I will probably talk a bit about SDC... when time permits

On Friday, 18 December 2015 at 22:35:45 UTC, Jakob Jenkov wrote:
> On Sunday, 13 December 2015 at 20:29:47 UTC, Pederator wrote:

> I have been thinking about writing about D too. Maybe make a few videos. But I don't know... I don't know how big the interest is in total.

Well considering documentation is one of Ds biggest criticizers, i think a video would be very high in demand. Not that you can explain much in a single video but the video is supposed to be a tutorial.