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Programming in D: The Ultimate Guide for Software Engineers

Programming in D: The Ultimate Guide for Software Engineers

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154 Lessons

15h

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343 Playgrounds
15 Challenges
19 Quizzes

This course includes

343 Playgrounds
15 Challenges
19 Quizzes
Course Overview
Course Content

Course Overview

While D has been around for a while, it’s just now starting to see a surge in popularity. D is a multi-paradigm system programming language that combines a wide range of powerful programming concepts. Because D is a re-engineering of C++, many C++ developers have switched to learning D. In this course, you will start by building a simple "hello world" program. You will then proceed to cover the concepts related to variables, loops, conditional statements, and arrays in order to build up your fundamentals. ...Show More

Course Content

1.

Getting Started With D

The Hello World Program
writeln and write
Challenge: Fix the Code
Solution: Fix the Code
Compilation of D Code
Quiz
2.

Variables and User Input

Fundamental Types
Assigning Values to Variables
auto and typeof
Challenge: Output Variable Values in a Statement
Solution: Output Variable Values in a Statement
Standard Input and Output Streams
Reading from the Standard Input
Quiz
3.

Arithmetic and Logical Operations on Data Types

Logical Expressions
Challenge: Fix the Code
Solution: Fix the Code
Integers
Basic Arithmetic Operations on Integers
Advanced Arithmetic Operations on Integers
Challenge: Find Remainder and Quotient of an Integer
Solution: Find Remainder and Quotient of an Integer
Detecting Overflow and Truncation in Integers
Floating Point Types
Overflow and Truncation in Floating Point Types
Floating Point Types Usage and Limitations
Challenge: Find Twice and One Fifth of a Floating Point Value
Solution: Find Twice and One Fifth of a Floating Point Value
Quiz
4.

Conditional Statements and Loops

if Statement
Chaining if-else Statements
Challenge: Fix the Code
Solution: Fix the Code
Ternary Operator ?:
Lazy Operators
while Loop
Name Scopes
for Loop
Challenge: Print a Parallelogram Pattern
Solution: Print a parallelogram pattern
do-while Loop
Quiz
5.

Arrays, Characters and Strings

Arrays
An Array Example
Array Initialization and Basic Array Operations
Associative Arrays
Challenge: Sort and Reverse Elements of an Array
Solution: Sort and Reverse Elements of an Array
Slices and Other Array Features
Slices: Termination of Sharing
Operations on All Elements
Multi-dimensional Arrays
Challenge: Halve the Elements of the Array
Solution: Halve the Elements of the Array
Characters: Introduction
Characters: Types and Literals
Characters: The std.uni Module
Characters: D's Unicode Problems and Support
Strings
String Length, Literals and Comparison
Challenge: Print Part of a String
Solution: Print Part of a String
Quiz
6.

File Handling in D

6 Lessons

7.

Literals and enum

6 Lessons

8.

Formatted Output and Input

11 Lessons

9.

foreach Loop and switch-case Statement

8 Lessons

10.

Functions

6 Lessons

11.

Immutability

5 Lessons

12.

Value Types and Reference Types

5 Lessons

13.

Function Parameters

10 Lessons

14.

Program Environment

5 Lessons

15.

Exceptions and scope

8 Lessons

16.

assert and enforce Statements

8 Lessons

17.

Unit Testing

7 Lessons

18.

Contract Programming

6 Lessons

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