Best Ada book?

Best Ada book?

[DEAN RUNZEL]

I've been asked by some friends to recommend a general Ada book for use as
their desk reference. I'm aware of Michael Feldman's book which is a great
first Ada book but it doesn't cover tasking. I'm also aware of Norman Cohen's
book and Grady Booch's "Software Engineering with Ada" and Naiditch's 
"Rendevous with Ada". I'm not sure which book to recommend. They are all
DoD software engineering interns and have had a year of Ada education 
using both Feldman's and Cohen's books. I know AJPO was working on a project
to include a textbook with a compiler. Is this available? Please don't 
recommend the LRM. What these guys are looking for is an easy to read and
understand book that they can use in their daily work efforts and as a 
continual educational resource. I'm sure no one book is truly sufficient 
but I can only recommend one due to limited funds. Any input would be 
appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
  Dean R. Runzel
 

Re: Best Ada book?

[Tore Joergensen]

DEAN RUNZEL (s0222353@moncol.monmouth.edu) wrote:

: ...deleted... Please don't 
: recommend the LRM. What these guys are looking for is an easy to read and
: understand book that they can use in their daily work efforts and as a 
: continual educational resource. I'm sure no one book is truly sufficient 
: but I can only recommend one due to limited funds. Any input would be 
: appreciated.

: Thanks in advance,
:   Dean R. Runzel
:  
Have you looked at the Rationale. It is one of the ada-doc's that
are written by the commitee, but it is written more like a normal
book, not a reference-manual. I would recomend you to look at it.
I think it is quite useful as a  Ada 95 introduction book for
people who knows Ada 83. You can find it on the net, where you found
your LRM (which I would recomend to use as a LRM :-) ).
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Best Ada Book?

[flopint]

DEAN RUNZEL (s0222353@moncol.monmouth.edu) wrote:

: ...deleted... Please don't 
: recommend the LRM. What these guys are looking for is an easy to read and
: understand book that they can use in their daily work efforts and as a 
: continual educational resource. I'm sure no one book is truly sufficient 
: but I can only recommend one due to limited funds. Any input would be 
: appreciated.

: Thanks in advance,
:   Dean R. Runzel

I would recommend "Ada: A Developmental Approach" by Fintan Culwin 
(ISBN 0-13-489147-3). This book is actually a text on Software Engineering 
which uses Ada as the example language. As a result, it presents Ada in
Software Engineering terms.

I found this very useful in learning to use Ada as God intended.

--Frank