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=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c9bf32fe122304d9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Marin David Condic Subject: Re: Example Programs Date: 1998/12/08 Message-ID: <366D58D2.7369228F@pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 420101632 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: condicma@nameserver.pwfl.com References: <74j2m0$3ku@romeo.logica.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Pratt & Whitney Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: diespammer@pwfl.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-12-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Nobody wrote: > > Hello, > I am currently working through Barnes, Programming in Ada, 4th edition . It > seems to contain lots of code 'fragments' and not many full, working and > commented programs that I can type in and modify. I find this a helpful way > of learning languages. > One thing you might find helpful in learning a language is simply to set yourself a goal of implementing some non-trivial program in that language. Pick a program that you know how to solve and try coding it in Ada. Keep the ARM handy and any texts you have available for reference. By the time you get your program up and running you will have been forced to look up the rules for enough constructs that you will have built up a working knowledge of the language. You might also go looking for the Public Ada Library - I don't have the URL handy, but I'm sure you can find it via Alta Vista. -- Marin D. Condic Real Time & Embedded Systems, Propulsion Systems Analysis United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney, Large Military Engines M/S 731-95, P.O.B. 109600, West Palm Beach, FL, 33410-9600 Ph: 561.796.8997 Fx: 561.796.4669 "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- G.B. Shaw