Teaching Ada in Real-Time Software Systems

Teaching Ada in Real-Time Software Systems

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which include Ada source code and reuse oriented documents.

The following is the abstract from a new asset that has been added to
the ADA COURSEWARE Collection.  This collection is being expanded 
through cooperation with West Virginia University. 

  ASSET_A_805: Teaching Ada In A Real-Time Software Systems Course

    This report presents the results of a project to design and
  develop a senior level course in which the Ada programming language
  will be used to teach real-time software systems development.  The
  lessons learned/advances made as a result of this research effort are
  included in the following sections of this final report:

     *    The development of a laboratory to support the course. 
          (DARPA.DAP, CHART1.DWG, CHART2.DWG, CHART3.DWG, CHART4.DWG,
          CHART5.DWG, CHART6.DWG, CHART7.DWG, TRAIN.DWG)

     *    Class information. (CLSSINFO.DAP)

     *    Text selection process. (TEXTBOOK.DAP)

     *    Course syllabus including course outline and prerequisites.
               (SYLLABUS.DAP)

     *    Running programs in HAPSE (Harris Ada Programming Support 
            Environment.) (HAPSE.DAP)

     *    Topics on Ada Sequential Programming. (ADATOPIC.DAP)

     *    An example of handling interrupts in Ada. (INTERRUPT.DAP)

     *    Feasible student projects, including:
          *    Background Irrigation System
          *    Multiple Keyboard System
          *    Model Railroad Projects (six)
               (PROJLIST.DAP, REALPRB1.DAP, REALPROB2.DAP,
               REALPRB3.DAP)

    The sections listed above are contained in the files listed in
  parentheses after each section.  Files listed with the extension of
  .dwg are AutoCad drawing files.  All other files are WordPerfect
  files.  Each WordPerfect file has a matching ASCII version with the
  extension .asc.


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