Ali put together a guest post for the D blog on how he fell into to writing a Turkish tutorial on D that later became one of the best known resources for learning the language. Long live 'Programming in D'!

http://dlang.org/blog/2016/06/29/programming-in-d-a-happy-accident/

And once again, I forgot the reddit link (see, Vladimir... I'm the kind of guy that absolutely needs an edit button!).

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4qfg67/programming_in_d_a_happy_accident_how_a_turkish_d/

On Wednesday, 29 June 2016 at 13:20:46 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Ali put together a guest post for the D blog on how he fell into to writing a Turkish tutorial on D that later became one of the best known resources for learning the language. Long live 'Programming in D'!
>
> http://dlang.org/blog/2016/06/29/programming-in-d-a-happy-accident/

Ali is much too modest in his post.  Whenever I open his book, I can't help but think about the expression: from small acorns grow mighty oaks