Re: Newbie with questions

[Marin David Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com>]

John Behen wrote:

> I took a basic course in Ada95 about 1 1/2 years ago.  It definitely
> piqued my interest, but also showed me that I have a lot to learn.
> Aside from the FAQ, which I am reading as I write this, where is the
> best place to start?  Thank you in advance for the help....
>

You may have already heard of http://www.adahome.com/ where there are
links to tutorials and other useful resources. See also
http://www.AdaPower.com/ for similar resources. From my page (see
trailer) you can find links to a number of other Ada related pages as
well as some useful Ada source code.

I'd suggest as a good way to pick up on Ada (or any language) that you
get hold of a compiler and work through some small illustrative example
programs - either from an Ada textbook or from questions you can derive
on your own. (My Ada page has a bunch of small programs I use for an
in-house class to illustrate individual language features, etc.) You
could also get the Ada Reference Manual (See Adahome) and look through
it to familiarize yourself with the rich set of features available to
you. I've found it useful to look over features and write small example
programs to try to figure out how to use them. Another good way to learn
the language is to pick some relatively small application and decide to
implement it in Ada. Your first program won't be a masterpiece, but
you'll learn as you go.

You can get a good Ada compiler from ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/ for the
price of a download. (Versions available for most popular machines)

MDC
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