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=1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!shlump.nac.dec.com!smaug.enet.dec.com!abbasi From: abbasi@smaug.enet.dec.com (Nasser ABBASI) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Using Ada in novice programming courses Message-ID: <21894@shlump.nac.dec.com> Date: 9 Apr 91 05:18:22 GMT Sender: newsdaemon@shlump.nac.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation List-Id: In article <3010@sparko.gwu.edu>, mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes... >In article <638@stan.xx.swin.oz.au> rob@saturn.cs.swin.OZ.AU (Rob Allen) writes: > >>Yes, at Swinburne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. > (other stuff deleted) >>In third semester we use Feldman:"Data Structures with Ada" Reston 1985 which >>is overpriced. Conventional assignments. > >After much cajoling and screaming, I got Prentice Hall to drop the US price >of this book to about $45.00 retail. It's still too high, but it is comparable >to other hardcover data structures books (at least I think so). > .. >Mike Feldman >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actually The price of all text books is getting too high, You have to try very hard to find a text book under $50 U.S. . Knowledge may be power, but aquiring it is sure expensive ! /naser