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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6854782231daeb76 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Marin David Condic Subject: Re: Newbie with questions Date: 1999/09/02 Message-ID: <37CE972E.1B4D58D@pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 520200992 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: condicma@bogon.pwfl.com References: <37CE8E37.160375E7@mnsinc.com> To: John Behen X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Pratt & Whitney Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: e108678@pwflcom Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-09-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- Marin David 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 ***To reply, remove "bogon" from the domain name.*** Visit my web page at: http://www.mcondic.com/