Ada compilers, resources, books in education?

[weide@elephant.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bruce Weide)]

In article <9105091625.AA11977@enuxha.eas.asu.edu> koehnema@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Harry Koehnemann) writes:
>
>It's not just that, it's also resources.  It been discussed here to put
>Ada as the beginning language, but what are the consequences of doing
>so.  A university can get a site license for pretty cheap.  However,
>compile 15 C programs concurrently and then 15 Ada versions for
>equivalent programs and you'll see the magnitude of the problem.
>

Another impediment is an appropriate textbook.  What books have people
found useful in teaching Ada, either to beginning or almost-beginning
students?  Among other things, I'm thinking of books that don't try to
teach the whole language but that do justice to the most important
constructs.

	-Bruce