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_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7f95572f9e8b6cdd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-28 10:11:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeed.online.be!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!server3.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Online Ada textbook Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 17:57:48 +0100 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3BB4AC0C.967C6234@brighton.ac.uk> References: <3BAD1805.4BE7F2C6@brighton.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-b5.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 1001696051 26458 194.81.199.185 (28 Sep 2001 16:54:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Sep 2001 16:54:11 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13478 Date: 2001-09-28T16:54:11+00:00 List-Id: "chris.danx" wrote: > > "John English" wrote in message > news:3BAD1805.4BE7F2C6@brighton.ac.uk... > > Since my book "Ada 95: The Craft of Object-Oriented Programming" is > > now out of print following Prentice Hall being swallowed up by the > > all-enveloping Pearson group, I have reacquired the copyright and > > released it online at http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je/adacraft/ > > in HTML format. It can also be downloaded for offline use. > > ooc: Will it be part of Burks in future? That'd be great for our Uni. We > used your book in some of our courses but now it's out of print they might > not recommend it, which would be a real shame. Putting it on Burks along > with GNAT (which if memory serves is already part of Burks, but could be > wrong) would be grand. It is indeed on this year's edition of BURKS (BURKS 6), as is Mike Smith's book (which is also out of print now). See the BURKS website (URL below). > [ot] p.s. do other uni's distribute burks or does it have to ordered it from > Brighton? just curious. Most UK unis buy in bulk and redistribute, usually through the computer centre or local bookshop. Many European and American institutions also do the same; last year we distributed about 15,000 copies worldwide. ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------