On 2014-05-14 05:22, Steve D wrote:
> I came across this site http://learnxinyminutes.com/ which gives a summary of most of the popular languages.

Yes, it's definitely a good idea from a promotional point of view to put D in all those places where languages are compared. Then -- like on http://rosettacode.org -- one can compare how typical tasks are written and get sold on D's relatively sane approach.

OTOH, seeing the title "Learn X in Y minutes" makes me smile. :)
http://norvig.com/21-days.html

On Wednesday, 14 May 2014 at 07:04:24 UTC, w0rp wrote:
> I'm unsure about the "learn x in y minutes" tutorials, but I did however think this was very neat. http://tryhaskell.org/

http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/neat/

On Wednesday, 14 May 2014 at 12:27:22 UTC, FG wrote:
> On 2014-05-14 05:22, Steve D wrote:
>> I came across this site http://learnxinyminutes.com/ which gives a summary of most of the popular languages.
>
> Yes, it's definitely a good idea from a promotional point of view to put D in all those places where languages are compared. Then -- like on http://rosettacode.org -- one can compare how typical tasks are written and get sold on D's relatively sane approach.
>
> OTOH, seeing the title "Learn X in Y minutes" makes me smile. :)
> http://norvig.com/21-days.html


Good article, but we all know those books that promise to teach a language in 24 hours or 21 days do not make us masters. We just want to see how it feels or try to grasp the basics and then practice it with more advanced books.

I too believe in that 10,000 hours theory, but we should begin somewhere, right?

On 14/05/14 10:11, Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> http://drepl.dawg.eu

Oh, cool! :-)  Is there any prospect of extending that with an interactive tutorial as tryhaskell.org does ... ?

On Wednesday, 14 May 2014 at 08:46:34 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Martin Nowak:
>
>> http://drepl.dawg.eu
>
> Looks quite nice, it can become quite useful for D programmers.
>
> If I insert:
> int[int] d = [1: 2, 3:4];
>
> It answers me:
> => non-constant expression [1:2, 3:4]
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

https://github.com/MartinNowak/drepl/issues/8
There are still some limitations, hope to have time for this soon, but shared libraries are more important currently.

On Wednesday, 14 May 2014 at 19:23:14 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 14/05/14 10:11, Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> http://drepl.dawg.eu
>
> Oh, cool! :-)  Is there any prospect of extending that with an interactive tutorial as tryhaskell.org does ... ?

Yes, I have some plans for that, bugs and some basic features are more important though.
First step would be a widget https://github.com/MartinNowak/drepl/issues/28, another step would be a site which allows to author and publish tutorials.
It won't happen soonish.

> Someone here in D.learn (anonymous) already did a basic page http://forum.dlang.org/thread/l6baie$vci$1@digitalmars.com last November but it only made the learn forum and doesn't seem to have been progressed.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/7527033
That's a real pity, someone should rescue the effort.

On Wednesday, 14 May 2014 at 08:11:37 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 May 2014 at 07:36:57 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 14 May 2014 at 07:04:24 UTC, w0rp wrote:
>>> I'm unsure about the "learn x in y minutes" tutorials, but I did however think this was very neat. http://tryhaskell.org/
>>
>> A friend and former colleague of mine wrote that. Great guy. :-)
>
> http://drepl.dawg.eu

I not see the 'D>' use the IE9 on Windows7 x64,but
use the firefox,it's ok.

FG:

> Then -- like on http://rosettacode.org -- one can compare how typical tasks are written and get sold on D's relatively sane approach.

The same comparisons also show that there are one hundred different cases where D/Phobos are not reasonable enough yet.

Bye,
bearophile