Re: Ada Concept Book

[mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)]

In article <3eccjr$2q0@urvile.MSUS.EDU>,
Scott Bauer ;-) <bauers01@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU> wrote:
>I'm looking for a really good ada concept and algorithm book.
>One that contains information on File systems using ada would be most
>useful. Especially using blocking and buffering.  The one I'm currently
>using for class just doesn't cut it. 
>Thanks for any suggestions
>
This is the only file structures book that uses Ada as its language of
discourse. If this is the one you think "doesn't cut it", you're
pretty much out of luck, unless there is something out there I'm
not aware of. I just finished teaching a files course using this
book, and most of the students thought it was OK.

Miller, N.E. and C.G. Petersen. File Structures with Ada.
Benjamin/Cummings, 1990. ISBN 0-8053-0440-1 (file structures)
  Designed for a straightforward ACM-curriculum file structures course,
this book succeeds at what it does. There are good discussions of ISAM
and B-tree organizations. The software can be purchased a low cost from
the authors; it seems to approximate in Ada all those C-based file
packages advertised in programmer-oriented trade publications.


Good luck!

Mike Feldman
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