Re: Documenting Individual Objects

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In article <1r3ngeINN4mv@umbc7.umbc.edu> Mr. Kenneth Rowe writes
     
>  Has anyone taken a stab at including Ada9X features into their current
>  Ada courses?  Does "introducing Ada9X" look like it will be helpful?
>       
>  Ken. 
>  

I'm ready to role as soon as someone out there is willing to play
"let's make a deal" and let me try out a beta test 9X compiler.  I
have Janus' beta test 9X for PCs and am using it to rework my Ada
tools and data structure components to give them an "object-oriented"
flavor using 9X.  If I can get a decent beta version of 9X this summer,
I plan to use 9X in my Advanced Data Structures Course this fall.
If I can get one by Christmas, I plan to use 9X in my CS 2 course in
the spring.

I will only use 9X if I have it.  I don't like giving students
demonstrations pieces of code (in 9X), if they don't have the resources
to play with it.

I feel that CS 2 and the Advanced Data Structures courses are two
courses that are primed for Ada-9X and a stronger OO flavor.  I
might add that I recently reviewed a CS 1 text with an OO flavor
that really impressed me.  The book was good, but it used a non-
standard corruption of Pascal -- the book would be great if done
in 9X.

So you compiler guys out there -- if you want to get lots of people
checking out you compiler, we got lots of eager students who are
ready to give it a work out.
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