Programming in D: The Ultimate Guide for Software Engineers

Description

In this course, you will learn :

• Creating a basic HELLO WORLD programme.
• Go over concepts such as variables, loops, conditional statements, and arrays to solidify your foundation.
• Fundamentals, you'll move on to more advanced topics like functions, unit testing, and contract programming.

Syllabus :

1. Getting Started With D

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

6. File Handling in D

• Redirecting the Standard Input and Output Streams
• Files
• std.stdio.File struct

 

7. Literals and enum

• Integer and Floating Point Literals
• Challenge: Fix the Code
• Solution: Fix the Code
• Character and string Literals
• enum

 

8. Formatted Output and Input

• Formatted Output
• Format Specifiers: Format_Character
• Format Specifiers: Width, Separator, Precision and Flags
• Format Specifiers: Formatted Element Output
• Format Specifiers: Positional Parameters and Format
• Formatted Input

 

9. foreach Loop and switch-case Statement

• foreach Loop
• foreach Loop Properties
• Challenge: Swap Keys with Values of an Associative Array
• Solution: Swap Keys with Values of an Associative Array
• switch and case

 

10. Functions

• Introduction
• How Functions Work?
• Improved Code Quality

 

11. Immutability

• Immutability
• Immutable Parameters
• Should a Parameter be const or immutable?
• Immutability of the Slice Versus the Elements

 

12. Value Types and Reference Types

• Value Types
• Reference Variables
• Reference Types
• Value Types vs Reference Types

 

13. Function Parameters

• Function Parameters
• Referenced Variables As Parameters
• Parameter Qualifiers: in, out, const and immutable
• Parameter Qualifiers: ref, auto ref and inout
• Parameter Qualifiers: lazy, scope and shared
• Function Parameters: Summary
• Challenge: Fix the Code
• Solution: Fix the Code
• Lvalues and Rvalues

 

14. Program Environment

• The Return Value of main( )
• Parameters of main( )
• Command-Line Options and the std.getopt Module
• Environment Variables and Starting Other Programs

 

15. Exceptions and scope

• Exceptions
• The throw Statement
• The try-catch Statement to Catch Exceptions
• The finally Block
• Exception Properties
• Kinds of Errors
• scope

 

16. assert and enforce Statements

• Types of assert
• Properties of assert
• enforce and the Use of assert-enforce
• Challenge: Fix the Code

 

17. Unit Testing

• Cause and Discovery of the Bugs
• Unit Testing
• Testing for Exceptions
• Test-Driven Development

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