London D Programmers

Tuesday 3rd February 2015

Tonight's Menu

• Introductions & Experiences
• Editors & IDEs
• Getting Started with D
• TDD with D
• Secret Santa Challenge
• Discussion & Socializing

Introductions

• Who are you? 
• What do you do?
• What is your experience with D?
• Why did you come here tonight?

Editors & IDEs

intellij demo

What IDEs/Editors?

• What are people here currently using?
• What have you tried? liked or disliked?
• What are you looking for in a D IDE or editor?

Learning D

Getting Started

Helpful Resources

• How did you learn D?
• What websites,courses,books are helpful?
• Do you need to know C or another language already?

TDD with D

Pairing

Calculator Pairing Exercise

• http://osherove.com/tdd-kata-1/

Secret Santa

code challenge

Rules

private string[] LIST = [
  "David Jason",
  "Claire Jason",
  "Vicky Pollard",
  "Keith Pollard",
  "Ian Smith",
  "Maria Osawa",
  "Mark Kelly",
  "Sarah Kelly"
];

• End up with an associative array (hash map) of present givers and recievers
• Each person may only give one present and receive one present.
• A person cannot give themselves a present.
• People in the same family are not allowed to give each other presents