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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,21f55974e3558d73 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Subject: Re: Ada 101 Date: 1996/05/19 Message-ID: <4nnt00$ht1@felix.seas.gwu.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 156363626 references: <00001a73+00002d39@msn.com> <319E19DA.78A6@swcp.com> organization: George Washington University newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-05-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <319E19DA.78A6@swcp.com>, Gordon Dodrill wrote: >Kenneth Mays wrote: >> >> I need a book that ANYONE can read and understand with minimal >> difficulty. Does such a book exist for the Ada market?! > >There is a complete Ada 83 tutorial at the site listed below. You may want >to take a look at it. > I took a quick look at this. It's really a pretty nice piece of work, at a level similar to John Herro's Ada-Tutr. It's a shareware work, requesting a $15.00 shareware fee. In my opinion, it's worth the fee. It seems to be well thought-out and well-edited. I have a couple of friendly suggestions, based just on my very quick look. (1) Right at the start, the author describes Ada as a "very large language." By comparison, his C++ tutorial - at the same site - does not describe C++ in the same terms. Given that C++ and Ada are roughly the same "size" these days - C++ has no tasking but otherwise modern C++ and modern Ada have very similar features - it's misleading and intimidating to describe Ada this way. (2) I think it would be a great idea to insert hyperlinks in the text to point to the programs. This wouldn't be hard to do, and would let a casual reader explore the tutorial - programs included - on the Web. (3) In the "other resources" section, there are links to SIGAda and AdaIC, but none to Home of the Brave Ada Programmers, http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/ I hope Gordon will add this. I hope Gordon will see fit to add the material necessary to teach Ada 95; Ada 83 is no longer "current". Nice job! There are now at least 4 web-based Ada tutorials! This is good news! Mike Feldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman - chair, SIGAda Education Working Group Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University - Washington, DC 20052 USA 202-994-5919 (voice) - 202-994-0227 (fax) http://www.seas.gwu.edu/faculty/mfeldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pork is all that money the government gives the other guys. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ada on the WWW: http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/ or http://info.acm.org/sigada/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------