From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ebdc5ed511896a0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: shoshanister@gmail.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: urgent question - generics Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:35:55 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1188837355.753212.161150@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> References: <1188809249.040351.100160@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <1188819393.588005.23850@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 89.138.8.190 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1188837355 10868 127.0.0.1 (3 Sep 2007 16:35:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 16:35:55 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=89.138.8.190; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:1706 Date: 2007-09-03T09:35:55-07:00 List-Id: On Sep 3, 4:01 pm, a...@anon.org (anon) wrote: > In <1188819393.588005.23...@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>, shoshanis...@gmail.com writes: > > >Hi, First, I'm a female. > > Sorry about calling you a guy, it is an easy mistake to make on the net. > > >Please don't post any more answers or such. > > If you look here I will always answer a question with code if > possible! Its just the way I am. I even jump of people here for not > posting code. Because in a test my code or anyone else code is > not going to help, unless you understand it! And the only way is to > see the code. > > >I understand according to what you wrote that I probably did not fully > >understand the generics mechanism. In this case, even if you will > >answer my question, it will not help me because my exam starts in an > >hour. > >I posted the question here, after trying to figure things out by my > >self, and I had no intention to insult any one of you or to take > >advantage of you. > > No insult or advantage of taken! > > >In a way, I'm not worried of not passing the exam. The worse thing > >that can happen is that I will take the course again, and gain my > >knowledge from the teacher as well as from the books, because studying > >ADA by your self is not simple. > > Actually, installing a free GNAT Ada version and starting to program > is the BEST way to learn. Teachers only have time to give you an > brief understand of any language. In the US that less than 45 hours > spanning 15 weeks. Outside programming is the only way to gain a > deeper understanding. And asking question with an expectation of an > answer is the second best way to gain a direction for that deeper > understand. > > Plus, in my many years experience if a person just say read a section > or chapter than they also do not understand the problem or the > language. Even my professor would not do that, they would give an > example (like I did) and then assign someone an extra assignment that > would include the example as a small part of the whole project. > > The only thing was their projects, either homework or extra > assignments were too simple for me, (bored me to death). I actually > had to expand them to make the worth my time. My Ada professor > use most of my work in Ada to teach his other classes at two > universities and wrote a number of text books using my classwork > that were used in both Europe and US universities. > > What I did for my first Ada assignment after modifying it, was > rated at doctoral level programming. I even had to have permission > from 3 universities and their computer systems to fully execute the > assignment. > > >Thanks a lot for your help. > >I hope that some day I will be able to join this group as an equal > >member and not just a student. > > I kind of believe that 50+ % of this group is students. Hi, Thanks for your kind response. I just came back from the exam. It was not very difficult but I can't say it was easy. I don't believe I passed, but it's ok. I don't mind attending the course again, Ada is a nice and very powerful language, and I wouldn't mind getting to know it better. I'm going to get some rest now. Thanks :)