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-Thread: 103376,f40056d015b2ae33 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!198.186.194.247.MISMATCH!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!news-out.readnews.com!postnews3.readnews.com!not-for-mail Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:40:36 -0500 From: "Peter C. Chapin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Suggestions for topics in an Ada course? References: <4737291e$0$27064$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <47383bae$0$27066$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> Organization: SoVerNet (sover.net) NNTP-Posting-Host: 31ac1297.news.sover.net X-Trace: DXC=ZG>MhE6In1a[L6CVJ6F>VkK6_LM2JZB_c08B@Gc]3b4j3?@`i3kGa5k]JlbSbfXT5d`[f9_Qn5R^l X-Complaints-To: abuse@sover.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18305 X-Original-Bytes: 1771 Date: 2007-11-12T06:40:36-05:00 List-Id: adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote: > At the risk of seeming to be self-promoting, my I suggest that you consider > having those > students download a copy of Ada Distilled from the AdaIC or AdaCore website. > BTW, > I recently began work on updating Ada Distilled for the 2005 standard. That sounds great! > For introductory students I currently use JEWL as part of the teaching. The > JEWL packages > themselves illustrate some of the best design features possible with Ada. The > example programs > make great a starting point for students who want to see their programs in a GUI > format. That sounds interesting too. I'll take a look. Thanks. Peter